Vitamins their two types. and importance

 VITAMINS

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            Vitamins are basically organic compounds. These are necessary compounds peoples need a very small amount of them in a body. Most of the vitamins does not produce in the body so people take them from food. These are compounds, our body needs to grow normally and properly. That’s why these are called essential nutrients of the body. Every vitamin has its own specific function in the body. If there is a deficiency of any vitamin in the body then a disease is produced related to this vitamin.

          The requirement of vitamin in the different organisms in different. Many peoples take vitamins in the form of supplements other than food. Some of the vitamins are not synthesized in the body, everyone needs these vitamins from external sources, which are called essential nutrients. The way of working of vitamins is different from the other biological nutrients. They are needed in very small amounts but their presence is necessary for the body.

VITAMINS TYPES

          There are two types of vitamins

1.     Fat-soluble vitamins

·        Vitamin A

·        Vitamin D

·        Vitamin K

·        Vitamin  E

These are fat-soluble vitamins. Our body stores these vitamins are in fatty tissues and their requirement are less as compared to water-soluble vitamins.

2.     Water-soluble vitamins

·        Vitamin C

·        Vitamin B complex

These are water-soluble vitamins. The body needs these vitamins are in very high amounts because these do not store in the body and these are easily excreted out from the body by dissolving in water.

 

vitamin C

IMPORTANCE

VITAMIN A

v Vitamins regulate the metabolism process in the body.

v The lack of vitamins blocks the functions of metabolism in some parts of the cell or whole body.

v Vitamins have catalytic functions in the body, they act as co-enzymes of other enzymes in the metabolism of other biomolecules like proteins, carbohydrates, and lipids.

v Vitamins are also the part of different biological membranes and maintain their integrity

v Some vitamins control the synthesis of different enzymes in the cell.

v The deficiency of different vitamins produces different diseases in the body.

v Vitamins allow our body to develop and grow properly.

v Vitamins increase the immunity of the body.

v They also help in the digestion of other nutrients.

v They maintain the strong healthy bones in the body.

 

 

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