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Vitamins are very important for our body. Sir F. Gowlan Hopkins discovered in 1906 that rats kept on a diet of pure proteins, fats. Carbohydrates, salts and water had signs of mainutrition. As a result of his experiments, he knew that this mainutrition was because of absence of some ingredients. He called these ingredients as vitamins.
Vitamin A
Absence of Vitamin "A" decreases immunity of our body. Its deficiency becomes the cause of curious dry condition of the eye. Eye sight can also be lost. It can also be the cause of calcification bones and rickets.
Its deficiency also reduces the natural immunity in the body that acts as an obstacle in the attack of diseases sometimes.
Vitamin A is found in larg quantity in cod liver oil and in smal quantity in butter and green vagitables.
Vitamin B
Vitamin B present in yeast and various kinds of food grains. Its absence in diet causes a dangerous disease known as beri-beri. This disease is mostly found in rice-eating nations.
Vitamin C
Vitamin C is also an important element of our diet. It can be found in fresh vagitables, peas and beans. The citrus fruit like lemon and orange are the store-house of vitamin C. The deficiency of this vitamin results in scurvy.
Vitamin D
Vitamin D is also found in cod liver oil. It is present in the fat of animals but in small quantity. The vagitable oils are devoid of it. It lack in the food has a bad effects upon the growth of body. It also causes the lack of calcium carbonate in the bones.
Which results in the diseases of rickets a disease in children.
Vitamin E
Vitamin E is very useful for curing sterility. A woman, who suffers from this disease due to lack of vitamin E, is unable to produce children.
It is found in large quantity in leaves and seeding.ux
Vitamins are essential part of food that maintain our health and protact our bodies from diseases.
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