Every year we spend £300 million on vitamin supplements. Some believe they offer the promise of preventing or even curing some of the world's biggest killers, such as Heart disease and cancer. Others claim that taking large doses of some vitamins may in certain cases be harmful.
Vitamin C, the most popular of them all
Nearly 40 years ago, one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century and double Nobel Prize winner, Linus Pauling, revolutionised the way people thought about vitamins. He claimed that by taking huge doses of vitamin C you could prevent or even cure the common cold.
He predicted that if everybody followed his advice, the common cold could even be eradicated. Many scientists dismissed his theory as quackery, but the public loved it and it helped launch a huge industry. But the latest evidence shows the great man was mistaken. Vitamin C can help you once have got a cold, but for most people it does nothing to prevent you from catching one in the first place.
Even if large doses of vitamin C do not prevent the common cold, some claim that it can still offer a more profound benefit. It is one of a group of vitamins called anti-oxidants that some believe can prevent illnesses such as cancer, Alzheimer's and heart disease.
Too much of a good thing?
In 2004, scientists in the United States claimed that people could be missing any of the potential benefits of taking one of the world's most popular anti-oxidant vitamin supplements, vitamin E, because their bodies might not be absorbing it. But our own investigation suggested that the American scientists' conclusion could be mistaken.
While most safety experts believe that vitamins C and E can be taken safely even in quite large doses, there is worrying evidence that one form of another common vitamin, vitamin A, could be linked to osteoporosis, a debilitating bone disease.
If the theory is right it means that a person's diet, or some supplements that they take every day to improve their health, could actually be slowly and silently weakening their bones.
Vitamins give a big impact on the human body, they give a large source of energy and nutrients to help you stay strong.
Vitamins that cannot be stored in the body are water-soluble vitamins.
Vitamins function in the body to aid in energy metabolism.
Nonessential vitamins
Your body can store a fat soluble vitamin but not a water soluble vitamin because they are not easily excreted out of the body as water soluble vitamins are.
Vitamins are needed because they work with other nutrients like minerals to maintain and heal the body.
Vitamins are a component/building block for most of the actions that take place inside the body on a chemical level. A severe lack of vitamins in a diet can cause many effect in humans. Examples of the effect areneurological dysfunctionimmune dysfunctionscurvyricketseyesight problemslost of appetitevomitingberiberideath
I think the body port they need vitamins to the body
You need vitamins in your body because vitamins is kind of like the food your your body.
Vitamins that cannot be stored in the body are water-soluble vitamins.
Vitamins function in the body to aid in energy metabolism.
A person's body needs vitamins to survive. The organs and different parts of the body needs vitamins to stay healthy and remain healthy.
Nonessential vitamins
No effect, however diseases can be cause be your mind, psychosomatic is the word for it, and these psychologicla medicines are called placebos, and they look like medicines but are just vitamins so have no affect on your body, howewveer trick your mind
all of em they are not vitamins for nothing.
vitamins a,c are for your cells in your body
It helps your body to be fit and heaithy.If you don't eat vitamins,your body will be very weak.
We need vitamins to keep our body strong and healthy.