1. Vitamins are good for everyone’s health. Discuss A vitamin is an organic compound required by an organism as a vital nutrient in limited amounts. An organic chemical compound is called a vitamin when it cannot be produced in sufficient quantities by an organism‚ and must be obtained from the diet. (Vitamin) Some of the most important vitamins and most commonly used which are good for everyone’s health are Vitamin A‚ Vitamin B1‚ Vitamin B2‚ Vitamin B6‚ Vitamin C‚ Vitamin E and Niacin (B3). Vitamin
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Vitamin A Overview Vitamin A is a vitamin. It can be found in many fruits‚ vegetables‚ eggs‚ whole milk‚ butter‚ fortified margarine‚ meat‚ and oily saltwater fish. It can also be made in a laboratory. Uses treatment and prevention of vitamin A deficiency. Vitamin A deficiency can occur in people with protein deficiency‚ diabetes‚ over-active thyroid‚ fever‚ liver disease‚ cystic fibrosis‚ or an inherited disorder called abetalipoproteinemia. Diseases i. Night Blindness: In the early stages
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Journal 2011‚ 10:46 http://www.nutritionj.com/content/10/1/46 RESEARCH Open Access Misleading measures in Vitamin D analysis: A novel LC-MS/MS assay to account for epimers and isobars Iltaf Shah1‚ Ricky James1‚ James Barker2‚ Andrea Petroczi1 and Declan P Naughton1* Abstract Background: Recently‚ the accuracies of many commercially available immunoassays for Vitamin D have been questioned. Liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC- MS/MS) has been shown to facilitate accurate
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FDA Regulation of Vitamins & Dietary Supplements in the U.S Course: International Business Management BICG 9702 Instructor: Dr. Carmen Dima Date: December 4‚ 2012 Done By: Nolwazi Dhliwayo and Hasnain Akber Ali EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Vitamins and dietary supplements are non-drug and non-hormone based products that can be consumed orally in the form of pills‚ powders‚ liquids or intravenously by injection. Their function is to supplement the diet‚ affording consumer’s added nutritional
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Project Title: Making of Malunggay Salad and Lemon Grass Juice I. INTRODUCTION 2.1 BACKGROUND OF THE PROBLEM One of the main issues that we have right now is getting the right vitamins and nutrients to our body. How we will do this is by choosing the food that we eat. Aside from that‚ we have to take consideration its cost. Can Filipino‚ in all walks of life‚ afford a healthy meal? More Filipinos have been eating rice just to withstand empty stomach rather than eating a balanced
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Many people have never heard of C-ASIST and are always amazed to hear what they do for the community. I now have an ‘elevator speech’ prepared for when people ask what it is. I always say “C-ASIST‚ is a non-profit organization that offers a free health clinic once a month to help the underinsured and the uninsured.” People don’t know how it works and how the founders are able to run a free clinic‚ but I explain to them that it is all volunteer based so they do not have to pay anyone that works at
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Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin that can be found in food but significant amounts of vitamin D can also be produced by the body. It can be obtained from sun exposure‚ food‚ and supplements are biologically inert and must undergo two hydroxylations in the body for activation. The two major forms of which are vitamins D2 (ergocalciferol) and vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol). This paper not only looks into the essential function of vitamin D on the subject of bone health‚ but also other non-calcemic
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October 14‚ 2011 Vitamin B12 Deficiency Vitamin B12 deficiency is also known as Cabalamin‚ it is a water-soluble vitamin that helps to maintain the healthy central nervous system and the formation of the red blood cells. Usually water soluble vitamins can’t be stored by the body. However‚ Vitamin B12 is a special kind of vitamin that can be stored in the liver for years. It is also needed to make the DNA material that exists in every cell. The average adult needs 2.4 microgram of vitamin B12 daily. Pregnant
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EXPERIMENT 1 DETERMINATION OF ASCORBIC ACID CONTENT IN VITAMIN C TABLETS INTRODUCTION To calculate the mass of the ascorbic acid and hence the mass percentage of ascorbic acid in the vitamin C tablet. PROCEDURES (Refer to Lab Manual) 1. Accurately weight vitamin C (effervescent type) in a 50 ml beaker. Add about 30 ml of deionised water to dissolve the vitamin C tablet. Once the tablet has dissolved completely‚ transfer the solution into a 250 ml volumetric flask via a plastic filter
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VITAMIN D (CALCITRIOL) INTRODUCTION: Bioactive vitamin D or calcitriol is a steroid hormone that has long been known for its important role in regulating body levels of calcium and phosphorus‚ and in mineralization of bone. More recently‚ it has become clear that receptors for vitamin D are present in a wide variety of cells‚ and that this hormone has biologic effects which extend far beyond control of mineral metabolism. Vitamin D is thus not
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