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Decoding The Health Benefits Of Vitamins


Did you know that your body needs at least 30 vitamins to function properly but is unable to produce them in a sufficient amount? We all have heard that vitamin C is an excellent ingredient for your skin, but apart from that, vitamins perform hundreds of role in your body, such as boosting your immunity, repair cell damage, and help in shoring bones.  Though vitamins are called micronutrients, as your body needs tiny amounts of them, but deficiency of any particular vitamin can cause diseases like scurvy (vitamin C deficiency), rickets (vitamin D deficiency), blindness (vitamin A deficiency) etc. 

Types of Vitamins

Water-soluble vitamins 

As the name suggests, vitamins dissolvable in water and packed in the watery portions of the food you eat are called water-soluble vitamins. Our bodies mainly consist of water so that these vitamins can circulate easily in our bodies, but they cannot be stored as they pass out via urine. One needs a regular supply of water-soluble vitamins. They perform various functions in our body, such as releasing energy from the food we eat, building proteins, multiplying cells, and making collagen.  Water-soluble vitamins include vitamin B and vitamin C.

Sources of water-soluble vitamins

Foods including cauliflower, asparagus, sunflower seeds, egg, fish, bananas, lentils, salmon, milk, broccoli, chickpeas, nuts, cheese, leafy vegetables, cereals, oranges are a rich source of water-soluble vitamins. 

Fat-soluble vitamins

Unlike water-soluble vitamins, these can stay in the body for days and even for months. Fat-soluble vitamins enter your body through blood via lymph channels in the intestinal wall. Mostly, they should be coupled with proteins to travel through the body. As these vitamins can be stored by the body, excesses are stored in the fat tissues and liver so that the body can tap into the reserves whenever the need arises. The primary function of fat-soluble vitamins involves building bones and protecting the body from unstable molecules.  Fat-soluble vitamins include vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin E and vitamin F.

Sources of fat-soluble vitamins

Foods including eggs, mushrooms, fish, kiwis, almonds, vegetable oils, pumpkins, figs and parsley are a rich source of fat-soluble vitamins. 

Is Your Body Getting Enough Vitamins?

If we want to give our body the number of vitamins it needs through the food that we eat, that'll be a lot of calories. So is there any way out of maintaining your calories and still ensuring that your body is getting enough vitamins? Yes! You can take multivitamins! Wherever your food falls short, multivitamins will help fill the gap!

Disclaimer - The texts with tips or advice mentioned here are only for generic information, but not for a substitute of medical advice. Before applying any advice or tips, you should consult a respective doctor or expert. ATT is not responsible if you have any bad impacts on your health.

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