Vitamins deficiency

Our body needs vitamins for many mechanisms, vital process in our body and for keeping us healthy.

Here are some vitamins and their effect on the body when they decrease:

1- Vitamin “A”: Night blindness. 

2- Vitamin “B1”: Beriberi. 

3- Vitamin “B2”: Ariboflavinosis .

4- Vitamin “B3”: Pellagra. 

5- Vitamin “B5”: Parestheia. 

6- Vitamin “B6”: Mycrocytic hypochromic anemia. 

7- Vitamin “B7”: Dermititis and enteritis. 

8- Vitamin “B9” - “B12”: Megaloblastic anemia.

9- Vitamin “B17”: Cancer. 

10- Vitamin “C”: Scurvy and swelling of gums. 

11- Vitamin “D”: Rickets and Osteomalacia. 

12- Vitamin “E”: less fertility. 

13- Vitamin “K”: Non-Clotting of blood.

How can we protect ourselves from these deficiencies ?!

By eating food contain these important vitamins like :

*vitamin A* can be found in eggs, milk,liver,colored orange vegetables like carrots , sweet potatoes and pumpkins  and some fruits like mango and peaches.

*vitamin C* can be found in citrus fruits like oranges , lemons, strawberries, kiwi, guava, peppers and tomatoes.

*vitamin D* you can supply your body with it when you get sunlight on your skin! You can also get vitamin D from egg yolks, oily fish such as salmon, tuna, and sardines, and fortified foods like milk, soy milk, and orange juice.

*vitamin E* may be found in many foods, such as vegetable oils, nuts, and green leafy vegetables and avocados.

*vitamin B12* you can find it in fish, red meat, poultry, milk, cheese, and eggs.

*vitamin B6* food rich in vit.B6 are potatoes, bananas, beans, seeds, nuts, red meat, poultry, fish, spinach and fortified cereals.

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