Vitamin A

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Vitamins - are inevitable for regular
function organism - they are essential, people
cant make them - divided to two groups
1. Fat-soluble vitamins (A, E, D, K) 2.
Water-soluble vitamins (B1-B12, M, H, C)
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Vitamin A
Retinol
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Vitamin A
Functions - play an important role in vision,
bone growth, reproduction, cell division and
cell differentiation - helps prevent or fight off
infections by making white blood cells that
destroy harmful bacteria and viruses

• Symptoms of deficiency
• - pancreatic disorder pancreatic secrets
  enzymes
• are important for fat absorptions
• - twilight blindness
• damage of teeth
• Resources
• - liver
• - milk and milk products
• - fruits and vegetables (provitamin)

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Vitamin B1

• Thiamine

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Vitamin B1

• Functions
• - needed to process carbohydrates, fat and
  proteins
• - nerve cells require him in order to function
  normally

• Resources
• made by the bacteria that lines the
  gastrointestinal tract
• cereal flour
• potatoes
• pulses

• Symptoms of deficiency
• illness beriberi
• fatigue
• cramps

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Vitamin B6

• Pyridoxine

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Vitamin B6

• Functions
• - is needed for more than 100 enzymes involved in
  protein metabolism.
• It is also essential for red blood cell
  metabolism.
• - the nervous and immune systems need him to
  function efficiently

• Symptoms of deficiency
• chronic pain, depressions, headache and
  Parkinsons disease
• slow healty inflammations

• Resources
• meat and liver
• green vegetables

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Vitamin C

• Acidum ascorbicum

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Vitamin C

• Symptoms of deficiency
• - weight loss
• dry skin
• scurvy

• Functions- important for keeping body tissues
• hydroxylation of collagen and steroids
• its powerful antioxidant
• helps your body resist infections

• Resources
• hips
• citruses
• blackcurrant
• green peppers

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Vitamin D

• Ergocalciferol (D2)

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Vitamin D

• Functions
• hormone, which sends a message to the intestines
  to increase the
• absorption of calcium and phosphorus
• helps to form and maintain strong bones and
  together with
• minerals and hormones to promote bone
  mineralization

• Symptoms of deficiency
• - osteoporosis
• - rickets
• - tooth decay

Resources - made in your body after
exposure to ultraviolet rays from the Sun - milk
and milk products, yeast (provitamins) - fish fat
and oils
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Vitamin E

• a-tocopherol

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Vitamin E

• Functions
• - prevention of cancer, abortions
• and varicose veins
• - powerful biological antioxidant

Symptoms of deficiency - liver cells failure -
muscular metabolism and pregnancy disorder
Resources - eggs, meat, milk - cereal
sprouts - nuts - vegetable oils
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Vitamin K

• Phyllquinone(K1)

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Vitamin K
Functions - makes six of the 13 proteins needed
for blood clotting
Symptoms of deficiency - spontaneous
haemorrhage - slow clotting of blood
Resources - made by the bacteria that line the
gastrointestinal tract - green vegetables
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Heighten requirement
of vitamins - by work with poisons and ionizing
ray - in period of increase - in convalescence -
in gravidity
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Vocabulary

• Inevitable nezbytný
• Harmful nebezpecný
• Liver játra
• Disorder porucha
• Require být zapotrebí
• Gastrointestinal trávicí
• Fatigue únava
• Cramps krece
• Involved in zapojený do
• Inflammation zánet
• Tissue tkán
• Increase rust
• Clotting srážení
• Pulses lušteniny
• Scurvy kurdeje