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Vitamins (Functions (Helps many different processes in body which are…

- - - - Found in oily fish, liver, eggs, milk, cheeses, butter and margarine
    - - Found in liver, green leafy veg, peas, orange(carrots) and red veg and fruit
    - - Healthy skin
      - Growth in children
      - Produces mucus to keep throat, digestive system, lungs etc. moist
      - Antioxidant
      - Keeps eyes health(enables sight in dim light)
    - - Toxic (poisonous)
      - In pregnant women will damage foetus development
    - - Total blindness, inability to see
      - Stored in human liver; Lack of it will lack time for symptoms to appear
      - Skin and mucus membranes become dry and infected
      - Children fail to grow/develop normally
  - - - Sunshine
      - Oily fish, meat, eggs, butter, vegetable fat, fortified breakfast cereal
    - - Helps calcium be absorbed into digestive system
      - Works with calcium to aid strong skeletal bones and teeth
    - - Damage to kidneys and other vital organs
    - - Bones will weaken (legs will bend under weight of body (rickets)) or break easily (osteomalacid/osteoparosis)
      - Teeth will be weak
  - - - Cheese, liver, green leafy veg, cheese, green tea, asparagus, coffee
    - - Helps blood clot to prevent further blood loss
    - - Babies given an injection of vitamin K within 24 hours of being born
  - - - Healthy blood and cells walls
      - Antioxidant
      - Possibly reduces risk of developing some cancers and heart problems
    - - Plant food (soya), corn oil, nuts, seeds, wheatgerm, vegetable fats, lettuce, egg yolks
- - - - Sources:
        
        Meat, milk, cheese, eggs, added to breakfast cereals and flour, seeds and nuts
      - Function:
        
        Helps release of energy from carbohydrates
      - Deficiency (lack):
        
        Can lead to beri-beri in which muscles and nerves are affected, memory lost and lack of concentration
    - - Deficiency:
        
        Swollen tongue, skin cracks around moth, eye problems
      - Function:
        
        Helps release energy from protein, fats and carbohydrates
      - Sources:
        
        Eggs, milk and milk products, rice, mushrooms
    - - Function:
        
        Works with B12 to make healthy red blood cells
      - Deficiency:
        
        Anaemia (not enough red blood cells to meet bodies needs), tiredness
        
        Risk of spina bifida in unborn babies
      - Sources:
        
        Eggs, milk, wheat, meat, maize, yeast
    - - Sources:
        
        Liver, meat, fish, cheese, yeast, fortified breakfast, cereal
      - Functions:
        
        Works with B3 to make healthy red blood cells
        
        Keeps nerve cells healthy
      - Deficiency:
        
        Anaemia, tiredness, shortness of breath
        
        Loss of taste, smell
  - - - Citrus fruit and other veg, potatoes.
      - Small amounts in milk and liver
    - - Needed to absorb iron from intestine
      - To maintain connective tissue which binds the body cells together (skin, blood, muscle etc.)
      - Helps wound healing
      - Antioxidant
    - - Diarrhoea, nausea and development of kidney stones
    - - Iron deficiency (anaemia)
      - Wounds take longer to heal/repair
      - Severe cases lead to scurvy
      - Bleeding from small blood vessels under skin which lead to red spots under skin and loose teeth
- - - - Free radicals can cause damage to cells which can lead to the body developing heart disease and some types of cancers
        
        Vitamin A, C and E are antioxidants which help prevent people from developing health conditions