Whats So Important About Vitamins?
In our childhood, we all might have got reprimanded by our mothers, scrutinising our dinner plates and saying sternly ‘quickly finish up your salad – it’s full of vitamins’! And when we grow up our Doctors keep reminding us ‘do not forget to take your daily dose of vitamins’! Some of us still wonder what is so special about them that everyone keeps emphasising on the importance of their consumption?! Vitamins (and also minerals) are micro substances found in the food items we consume. They help the body to do its daily functions and help you grow healthy and in an appropriate way. They are of different types, with each having an important role to play. They are present in different forms and quantities in different food items. Thus, that is the reason why everyone advices us to eat a balanced diet, so that we do not miss out on any of them! For example: Milk contains Vitamin D that makes our bones strong, oranges and other citrus fruits contain Vitamin C that increases our body’s heali
