Calcium and Vitamin Supplements - Vitamin Supplements

Vitamin Supplements

Vitamins are very important nutrients for the body. Along with minerals, they constitute the backbone of a healthy body, devoid of deficiency diseases like night blindness, rickets, scurvy, beri beri, phrynoderma, and so on. Therefore it becomes imperative that the body receives a regular requirement of vitamins(1^✔ ✔Trusted Source
The prevention and conquest of scurvy, beri-beri, and pellagra.

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(For a general info on vitamins refer to the section on the site)

Vitamins are broadly classified as: - Fat soluble (Vitamin A, D, E, and K)(2^✔ ✔Trusted Source
Fat-Soluble Vitamins.

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Biochemistry, Water Soluble Vitamins.

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The deficiency of these vitamins causes various diseases including anemia (due to deficiency of folic acid and vitamin B12), nerve and brain damage (due to deficiency of thiamin and vitamin B12), easy and excessive bleeding (due to deficiency of vitamin K)(4^✔ ✔Trusted Source
Vitamin K Deficiency.

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Vitamin D and calcium insufficiency-related chronic diseases: an emerging world-wide public health problem.

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