Vitamins are natural organic substances that are very important for your health. You cannot make vitamins so you have to get them from food. This is important – food is the only source of real vitamins, while most vitamin supplements are not. There are literally hundreds of thousands of biological actions going on in your […]
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Vitamins – The Basics
A vitamin is an organic compound required by the body in very small amounts to maintain normal physiological functioning. Vitamins were first isolated in their structures established in the 1930s, but the need for vitamins was clear long before the 1900s. In the 18th century, cod liver oil was used to treat rickets, while prior […]