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Vitamins facilitate the release of energy from the three energy yielding
nutrients. In contrast, minerals and water are inorganic nutrients.
Minerals yield no energy in human body, but like vitamins, they help to
regulate the release of energy, among their many other roles. In some
cases vitamins can help to reduce future diseases.
The metabolism is the set process by which nutrients are rearranged into
the body structures or broken down to yield energy.
Vitamins are a powerful group of substances, as their absence attests.
Vitamin A deficiency can cause blindness, a lack of niacin can cause
dementia, and a lack of vitamin D can cause retard bone growth. The
consequences of deficiencies are so dire and the effects of restoring the
needed nutrients so dramatic that people spend much Money each year in
vitamin supplements to cure many different ailments.
Vitamins certainly contribute to sound nutritional health.
Vitamins can help to combat disease caused by deficiency of that vitamin.
The vitamins roles in supporting optimal health extend far beyond
preventing deficiency diseases. Emerging evidence points to relationships
between low intakes of vitamins and chronic diseases such as cancer and
heart disease.
Two characteristics distinguish vitamins from energy nutrients; vitamins
do not yield energy when broken down, but assist enzymes that release
energy from carbohydrate, fat and protein.
Vitamins are needed in much smaller amounts that energy nutrients.
Determining the bioavailability of a vitamin depends on many factors,
including, the deficiency of digestion, other foods eaten at the same
time, the method of food preparation, the source of the nutrient, a
person´s previous intake and nutrition status.
Vitamin A has a distinction of being the first fat soluble vitamin to be
recognized.
Vitamin A is a versatile vitamin, with roles in gene expression, vision,
cell differentiation, immunity and reprodution and growth.
Three different forms of vitamin A performs specific tasks. Retinol
supports reproduction and is the major transport and storage form of
vitamin; the cells convert retinol to retinal acid as needed. Retina lis
active in vision, and retinoic acid act as a hormone, regulating cell
differentiation, growth, and embryonic development.
Vitamin A´s role in vision – Vitamin A have two indispensable roles in the
eye. It helps maintaining a healthy, crystal clear outer detection at the
retina.
Vitamin A is crucial to normal reproduction and growth. In men, this
vitamin participates in sperm development and in women promotes fetal
growth and development. During pregnancy, vitamin A is transferred to the
fetus and is essential to the development of the nervous system, lungs,
hearth, eyes, ears, skeleton and kidneys.
Vitamin D is different from all the other nutrients in that the body can
synthesize it in significant quantities with the help of sunlight. The
biological activity of the active vitamin is 500 to 1000 fold. Diseases
that affect either the liver or the kidneys may impair the transformations
of percursor vitamin D to active vitamin D and therefore produce symptoms
of vitamin D deficiency.
The best known action of vitamin D target organs are the small intestine,
the kidneys, and the bones, but scientists have discovered many other
vitamin D target issues, including the brain, the pâncreas, the skin, and
the reproductive organs.
These discoveries suggest that numerous additional functions for vitamin D
may surface, including regulation of the immune system.
Research is hinting that to incur a deficit of vitamin D is to invite
problems of many kinds, including high blood pressure, rheumatoid
arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, and even multiple sclerosis.
Vitamin D is a member of a large, cooperative bonemaking and maintenance
team composed of nutrients and other large compounds. Vitamin D´s special
role in bone growth is to make calcium and phosphorus available in the
blood that bathes the bones.The bones grow denser and stronger as the
minerals are deposited from the blood.
Vitamin E is a fat solutable antioxidant, in other words it protects other
substances from oxidation by being oxidized itself. Vitamin E exerts an
especially important antioxidant effect in the lungs, where the cells are
exposed to high concentrations of oxygen.
Vitamin E also protects the lungs from air pollutants that are strong
oxidants.
The few symptoms of vitamin E deficiency that have been observed in adults
include loss of muscle coordination and reflexes with impaired movement,
vision and speech.
Energy needs decline with advancing age. As a general rule, adult energy
needs decline na estimated 5 percent per decade.
A research reveals more about how specific vitamins and minerals influence
disease prevention, and how age relationed physiological changes affect
nutrient metabolism, optimal intakes of vitamins and minerals for
different groups of older adults are being defined.
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Vitamin K has long been known for its role in blood clotting, where its
presence can make the difference between life and dealth. This vitamin
also participates in the synthesis of several bone proteins. Without
vitamin K, the bones produce an abnormal protein that cannot bind to the
minerals that form bones, so bone density is low.
The B vitamins and vitamin C are the water solutable vitamins. They are
easily absorbed into the bloodstream and are just as easily excreted if
their blood concentrations rise too high.
All cells use thiamin, which plays a critical role in their energy
metabolism. Thiamin also occupies a special site on nerve cell membranes.
Consequently, as mentioned earlier, thiamin is critical to the normal
functioning of the nerves and muscles.
Riboflavin facilitates energy production in the body. The needs of
infants, children, and pregnant women rise rapidly during periods of
active growth.
Niacin participates in the energy metabolism of every body cell. Niacin is
unique among the B vitamins in that the body can make it from protein.
Pantothenic acid and biotin are also important in energy metabolism.
Pantothenic acid was first recognized as a substance that stimulates
growth. It is component of a key enzyme that makes possible the release of
energy from the energy nutrients.
Biotin plays na important role in metabolism as a coenzyme that carries
carbon dioxide. Emerging evidence indicates that biotin participates in
other processes such as gene expression and cell signaling and in the
structure of DNA binding proteins in the cell nucleus.
In the cells, vitamin B6 helps to convert one kind of amino acid, which
the cells have in abundance, to another, which they need in larger
amounts. It also aids in the conversion of the amino acid tryptophan to
niacin and plays important roles in the synthesis of hemoglobin and
neurotransmitters. Vitamin B6 also assits in releasing stored glucose from
glycogen and thus contributes to the regulation of blood glucose. Research
suggest roles for vitamin B6 in immune function, cognitive performance,
and hormone response. Vitamin B6 deficiency can significantly impair the
immune system response, perhaps by way of impaired antibody production.
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