Do you know about the essential 13 vitamins?

Do you know about the essential 13 vitamins?

The essential substance to the continuous functioning of life.

Vitamins are the substances that your body needs to grow and develop normally.

Could you name all 13 vitamins that your body needs to stay healthy and do that which you love most everyday?

Most of these vitamins cannot be synthesized in sufficient amounts by your body, that’s why we need to consume and take in this essential vitamins from an external source.

We basically can get all our vitamins from the food that we eat everyday, most of it anyway.

Some times people ask, Is there a neeed for supplements? The answer would be unless you eat a vegetarian diet, who might actually need to take vitamin supplements, otherwise, a healthy balanced diet will net you all the essential vitamins you need for daily jog in the park, swim in the lake and baking 10 loafs of bread.

We all know that each vitamin has a specific function.

Lets talk about vitamin A.

This particular stuff found naturally in many foods.

Namely livers (any kind of livers), most obvious would be carrots (remember how your mum always forced you to eat those orange stuff on your plate), spinach and sweet potato just to name a few.

So, what does vitamin A do?

Vitamin A helps form and maintain healthy skin, teeth, skeletal and soft tissue, mucus membranes, and skin. It is also known as retinol because it produces the pigments in the retina of the eye.

Retinol is an active form of vitamin A. It is found in animal liver, whole milk, carrots, and some fortified foods.

Having sufficient vitamin A actually prevents night blindness or Nyctalopia, a condition which makes it impossible to see in relative low light conditions.

it has been known since ancient Egyptian times that certain foods, such as liver, would cure night blindness, vitamin A per se was not identified until 1913.

With that said, Keep chomping those carrots!