Vitamins Your Body Needs to Stay Healthy

Vitamins, some people don't like to eat the foods they are in and some people think the foods they are in are good. You've been hearing about vitamins since you were a kid. This article will give you some food for thought or some vitamins for thought..

Long before scientists discovered the vitamin codes it was understood that eating certain foods would help you stay healthy and the foods could also help you prevent diseases. For instance Citrus fruits would ward off scurvy, which is a terrible disease that has symptoms of hemorrhaging. And it was discovered that eating unpolished rice instead of polished rice would prevent beriberi. Beriberi would give the victim paralysis and anemia. Scientist didn't really understand the relationship between these foods and the diseases they prevented until l906 when a British biochemist proved that in addition to proteins, carbohydrates, fats, minerals and water foods also contained what he call accessory factors or substances that the body needed to convert food to chemical form to the body could use it. But scientist still couldn't understand the chemical makeup so the couldn't give them proper names they just called them all vitamins and kept them separate by assigning a different letter of the alphabet to each new substance they discovered.

Now vitamins are divided into two different types. The water soluble kind like the B-complex vitamin and vitamin C and the fat -soluble kind like A.D.E. and K. Our bodies can't store the water-soluble vitamins so if you eat more then your RDA, or the Recommended Dietary Allowance most of these vitamins will pass right out of your body. Fat-soluble vitamins are more easily stored in you liver and body fat.