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VITAMINS AND "VITAMINDRINKS"-THEIR EFFECTS

VITAMINS AND "VITAMINDRINKS"-THEIR EFFECTS

Food is a substance or material taken to provide nutritional support for the body or for pleasure. It usually consists of plant or animal origin, which contains essential nutrients, such as, carbohydrates (rice, flour, wheat), fats (animals), proteins (lintils), vitamins, or minerals (vegetables, fruits) , and is ingested and assimilated by an organism to produce energy, stimulate growth, and maintain life. These substances are essential to the living beings. Deficiency of any of them produces detrimental effect to an animal. Each ingredient of food has its own function to keep the body right. Now-a-days, the necessity of different vitamins has properly evaluated and assessed. Deficiency of any of the vitamins causes different diseases and affects our body.

Vitamins and minerals are substances that are found in foods we eat. Our body needs them to work properly, for our growth and development. When it comes to vitamins, each one has a special role to play. For example: vitamin D in milk helps your bones, vitamin A in carrots helps us to see at night, vitamin C in oranges helps our body heal if we get a cut, B vitamins in leafy green vegetables help our body make protein and energy.

There are two types of vitamins: fat soluble and water soluble.

When we eat foods that contain fat-soluble vitamins, the vitamins are stored in the fat tissues in your body and in your liver. They wait around in our body fat until our body needs them.

Fat-soluble vitamins are happy to stay stored in your body for awhile — some stay for a few days, some for up to 6 months! Then, when it's time for them to be used, special carriers in our body take them to where they're needed. Vitamins A, D, E, and K are all fat-soluble vitamins.

Water-soluble vitamins are different. When we eat foods that have water-soluble vitamins, the vitamins don't get stored as much in our body. Instead, they travel through your bloodstream. Whatever our  body doesn't use comes out when you urinate (pee).

Our body is one powerful machine, capable of doing all sorts of things by itself. But one thing it can't do is make vitamins. That's where food comes in. Our body is able to get the vitamins it needs from the foods we eat because different foods contain different vitamins. The key is to eat different foods to get an assortment of vitamins.

Vitamin A

This vitamin plays a really big part in eyesight. It's great for night vision, like when you're trick-or-treating on Halloween. Vitamin A helps us see in color, too, from the brightest yellow to the darkest purple. In addition, it helps us grow properly and aids in healthy skin. Various sources of A are milk fortified with vitamin A, liver, orange fruits and vegetables (like cantaloupe, carrots, sweet potatoes) ,dark green leafy vegetables (like kale, collards, spinach),etc.

The B Vitamins

There's more than one B vitamin. Here's the list: B1, B2, B6, B12, niacin, folic acid, biotin, and pantothenic acid. Whew — that's quite a group!

The B vitamins are important in metabolic activity — this means that they help make energy and set it free when our body needs it. This group of vitamins is also involved in making red blood cells, which carry oxygen throughout our body. Every part of our body needs oxygen to work properly, so these B vitamins have a really important  job. Important sources of B vitamins are whole grains, such as wheat and oats, fish and seafood, poultry and meats, eggs, dairy products, like milk and yogurt, leafy green vegetables, beans and peas etc.

Vitamin C

This vitamin is important for keeping body tissues, such as gums and muscles in good shape. C is also key if we get a cut or wound because it helps us heal. This vitamin also helps our body resist infection. This means that even though we can't always avoid getting sick, vitamin C makes it a little harder for our body to become infected with an illness. Important sources of vitamin C are citrus fruits, like oranges, cantaloupe, strawberries, tomatoes, broccoli, cabbage, kiwi fruit, sweet red peppers etc.

Vitamin D

No bones about it . . . vitamin D is the vitamin we need for strong bones! It's also great for forming strong teeth. Vitamin D even lends a hand to an important mineral — it helps our body absorb the amount of calcium it needs. Important sources vitamin D are milk fortified with vitamin D, fish, egg yolks, liver, fortified cereal etc.

Vitamin E

Everybody needs E. This hard-working vitamin maintains a lot of our body's tissues, like the ones in our eyes, skin, and liver. It protects our lungs from becoming damaged by polluted air. And it is important for the formation of red blood cells. Important sources vitamin E are whole grains, such as wheat and oats, wheat germ, leafy green vegetables,  sardines, egg yolks, nuts and seeds etc.

Vitamin K

Vitamin K is the clotmaster! Remember the last time we got a cut? Our blood did something special called clotting. This is when certain cells in our blood act like glue and stick together at the surface of the cut to help stop the bleeding. Important sources of vitamin K are leafy green, vegetables, dairy products, like milk and yogurt, broccoli, soybean oil etc.

Is vitaminwater good for us ?

On a large scale,Glaceau,owned by Coca-Cola, markets vitamimdrinks having different colors, by emphasizing its nutritional value.  Is there any science behind the marketing though?

A vitamin-fortified drink may sound like a swell idea, but there are two caveats to keep in mind. First, most Americans aren't vitamin-deficient, according to Marion Nestle, a nutrition professor at New York University. A government survey  in 1999 showed that the median American adult man or woman already consumes more than the Recommended Dietary Allowance  (RDA) of vitamins thiamin, riboflavin,niacin, B6 and B12, and three-quarters of the RDA of vitamins C, B9 and A (including carotenes ). In fact, vitamin E is the only surveyed vitamin Americans consume at less than half of the RDA – but it's found in only a third of vitaminwater drinks.

If we want to drink an additional amount of vitamin E, there's a second caveat: our body may not absorb it. To understand why, it's important to know that vitamins can be divided into two groups: water-soluble and fat-soluble. Vitamin C and the B complex group are water-soluble and can easily enter the bloodstream with water. Vitamins A, D, E and K are fat-soluble. That means they can only enter the bloodstream to carry out their functions if they are dissolved in dietary fat, like that found in a meal. An Italian study published by the American Heart Association in 2001 showed that subjects who took vitamin E for two weeks on an empty stomach increased their vitamin E concentration in blood little or not at all, compared to an 84 percent increase in subjects who took the vitamin E supplement during dinner. So unless we prefer vitaminwater to wine with our meal, vitamins A and E will pass largely unused into our city's septic system.

Even if we were to absorb all the vitamins, vitaminwater might have trouble living up to its image as a salubrious alternative to sugary soft drinks: Each bottle of vitaminwater contains 32.5grams, or two heaping tablespoons, of crystalline fructose. Fructose is a simple sugar that sweetens many fruits, although the crystalline fructose in vitaminwater is produced from cornstarch , not fruit, by crystallizing the fructose in fructose-enriched corn syrups. As one would expect, nobody needs these extra sugars, according to Nestle, the NYU nutritionist. One research team has even indicated that the intense sweetness of sugary drinks may be addictive.

"The way that vitaminwater is marketed and positioned it's made to look more healthful than other sugary beverages, but it's not – it's still just a soft drink," said Margo G. Wootan, Director of Nutrition Policy at the Center for  Science in the Public interest. "It has this aura of healthfulness that is not deserved. Adding vitamins and minerals to junk food doesn't make it healthy."

About 35 percent of Americans are now considered medically obese. Two-thirds of Americans are overweight. Health experts tend to disagree about almost everything, but they all concur that added sugars play a key role in the obesity epidemic, a problem that now leads to more medical costs than smoking.

A federal judge ruled that Vitaminwater will not, as its labels promise, keep you "healthy as a horse." Nor will it bring about a "healthy state of physical or mental being". Instead, Vitaminwater is really just a sugary snack food; non-carbonated fruit coke disguised as a sports drink. Because it's composed mostly of sugar and not vitamin-laden water, judge John Gleeson held that Vitaminwater's absurd marketing claims were likely to mislead consumers.

Coke tried to explain away claims like "vitamins + water = all you need" as "only puffery." The judge disagreed.

"By including the suggestion that the product will "keep you healthy" or "help bring about a healthy state of physical and mental being" alongside such statements, the quoted language implies that the nutrient content of vitaminwater may help consumers maintain healthy dietary practices. I conclude, therefore, in light of the language and context in which they are used, that the statements on the "defense" and "B- Relaxed" labels constitute implied nutrient content claims which use the word "healthy." Such claims are in violation of violation of FDA regulations because . . . vitaminwater achieves its nutritional content solely through fortification that violates FDA policy."

The ruling rejected Coca Cola's motion to dismiss a class action suit brought by the scrappy do-gooders at the Center for Science in the Interest. The case should now be clear for trial, although it could settle if Coke is willing to change Vitaminwater's name to something less misleading. Cake in a Can, perhaps?

 

About the Author

Help! I need a quilting business name?

I am stuck on a business name - I am so not creative without a pattern LOL Some more about me to help your creativity

I will primarily make quilts to sell but may have cross stitch or crochet/knitting products as well, so I don't necessarily want the word "quilt" in my business name.

I have three preschoolers so I only get to work on these things when it is relatively quiet or at night. So perhaps something to do with the peace and quiet of crafting???

I mostly make patchwork or scrappy quilts, my favorite color is purple, favorite flower is daisy, favorite season is spring. Favorite quilts to make are baby/crib size, pinwheel patterns, and I Spy quilts.

Thanks!!!

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