Vitamins
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- Created on: 13-04-16 20:57
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- Vitamins
- Vitamin A
- Liver, egg, margarine, dark green leafy vegetables and red fruits and vegetables
- Vision problems, dry skin, slow growth in children
- Orange tint to skin
- Healthy eyes and bone growth
- Vitamin D
- Margarine, breakfast cereal and sun light
- Strong teeth and bones
- Rickets, osteoporosis, poor development of a unborn child
- Can be poisonous
- Folic Acid
- Dark green leafy vegetables, pulses and bananas
- Makes red blood cells
- Neural tube defects
- N/A
- Vitamin C
- Citrus fruits, green vegetables and blackcurrents
- Helps iron abdorbtion
- Scurvy, slow healing of wounds
- Water soluble, lost in urine
- Vitamin B complex
- Wholegrain, cereal yeast, meat
- Releases energy
- Not stored in the body
- Shortness of breath, rapid heart rate, loss of feeling or pain in hands and feet, difficulty speaking and vomitting
- Vitamin A
- Source
- Function
- Deficiency
- Excess
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