Vitamins provides essential nutrients that support vision, resistance to disease, appetite, nerve function, wound healing, blood clotting, fertility, and bone growth. The document lists key vitamins like A, B, C, D, E, and K and foods where they are found in considerable quantities like milk, butter, vegetables, fruits, eggs, meat, and liver. It also notes deficiencies that can result from not getting enough of each vitamin.
Vitamins provides essential nutrients that support vision, resistance to disease, appetite, nerve function, wound healing, blood clotting, fertility, and bone growth. The document lists key vitamins like A, B, C, D, E, and K and foods where they are found in considerable quantities like milk, butter, vegetables, fruits, eggs, meat, and liver. It also notes deficiencies that can result from not getting enough of each vitamin.
Vitamins provides essential nutrients that support vision, resistance to disease, appetite, nerve function, wound healing, blood clotting, fertility, and bone growth. The document lists key vitamins like A, B, C, D, E, and K and foods where they are found in considerable quantities like milk, butter, vegetables, fruits, eggs, meat, and liver. It also notes deficiencies that can result from not getting enough of each vitamin.
Vitamin Considerable Effects of Further notes quantities found in deficiency A milk, butter, fresh reduced resistance to Vitamin A is stored vegetables disease, poor night- in the liver vision, bad teeth B1 yeast; the germ lack of appetite fatigue, Extreme deficiency (embryo) of rice and nervous and digestive causes the diseases wheat trouble ‘beri-beri’ B2 yeast, milk, meat, green skin disease, nervous vegetables trouble C fresh fruit and green anaemia, poor healing Lack of vitamin C vegetables of wounds, reduced causes ‘scurvy’. resistance to disease Vitamin C is destroyed by cooking in air D liver, milk, egg yolk poor growth of bones Vitamin D is made by sunlight from body fat E wheat germ, butter reduced fertility Effects of deficiency have been shown only in rats K some green vegetables failure of the blood to Vitamin K is clot normally produced in the intestine by bacteria A. Say whether these statements are true or false 1) Milk is. poor in vitamins A and B1 2) An adequate supply of vitamin C can be obtained from milk. 3) Fresh fruit contains a considerable amount of vitamin C. 4) An inadequate supply of vitamin D can lead to bone malformation. 5) Green vegetables provide more vitamin C after they have been cooked. 6) If food contains insufficient vitamin A, vision may be affected. 7) It has been shown that a lack of vitamin E reduces human fertility. 8) Eggs, milk and liver provide negligible quantities of vitamin D. B. Answer these questions with information from the table 1) What are two possible reasons for reduced resistance to infection? 2) What should we eat to obtain sufficient amounts of vitamin C? 3) Why is wheat germ a very useful food? 4) Why do people who eat rice without the husks .sometimes get `beri-beri' ? 5) Why is vitamin D deficiency more likely to occur in cold countries? 6) Why is vitamin K deficiency unlikely to occur?
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Food gives us energy. It gives us nutrients to grow and to repair our bodies. It gives us carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals, and water. These nutrients are the body's building blocks. The nutrients must be digested to become a few simple chemicals. This is what gives us energy. This is also what keeps our body temperature at 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. FUEL-CARBOHYDRATES/FATS bread butter cake bacon rice milk pasta cream potatoes chocolate BUILDING BLOCKS/PROTEINS poultry fish meat meat vegetables eggs nuts REGULATIONOF BODY PROCESSES--VITAMINS AND MINERALS berries milk fish citrus fruit (oranges, grapefruit) eggs green vegetables Vitamin helps found in Vitamin A vision carrots Vitamin B us to grow, gives us an appetite wheat germ Vitamin C strengthen gums, fight colds citrus fruit Vitamin D build bones and teeth milk Vitamin K clot blood lettuce
Mineral helps found in
Iron build red blood cells liver Calcium teeth, bones Phosphorous teeth, bones milk
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Circle the words that best complete the sentences 1. Vitamin A helps our__________________ a) tests b) eyesight c) feet 2. Potatoes are rich in__________________ a) calcium b) proteins c) carbohydrates 3. A (an) __________________a citrus fruit a) apple b) orange c) pear 4. Liver consists a lot of ________ a) iron b) fat c) carbohydrates 5. Lemons contain a lot of_________________ a) Vitamin A b) Vitamin B c) Vitamin C 6. One of the best all-around foods is________________ a) cream b) milk c) candy 7.____________________are fuel for our bodies. a) carbohydrates b) proteins c) vitamins 8. A lot of Vitamin D is found in_________________ a) fruit b) milk c) liver 9. Carrots have a lot of Vitamin_________________ a) A b) B c) C 10. To build our bones and teeth we need_______________ a) Vitamin D b) lettuce c) fish