It's Simple

Lidgea Creery

• 12 mei 2014
• 9781499538229

Samenvatting:

It’s Simple: Vitamins HealDid you know vitamins are essential to our health and well-being?Did you know that a microwave oven can destroys most vitamins?• A vitamin A deficiency can increase risk of infectious diseases.• B vitamins help with brain functioning and mood disorders. • Infantile vitamin C deficiency, “Barlow’s disease”, can be mistaken as child abuse.• 70% of US children have a vitamin D deficiency which can be solved by playing in the sun.• Vitamin E works as a beneficial radio-protectant against cobalt-60 radiation.• Vitamin K aids in blood clotting and without it, at birth, an infant can hemorrhage.This book offers a glimpse about what vitamins are; what possible diseases they might aid in fighting; what health benefits they might offer; what risks they might have and what foods supply those vitamins.