Vitamins are organic substances that are necessary for normal health and growth in both animals and humans. If a vitamin is absent from the diet, or we don’t properly absorb it, a specific deficiency disease may develop.
Even worse, our entire body may start a decline that, over a period of years, may develop into a very serious disease such as, diabetes, cancer, heart disease, etc.
That there is a relationship between what we eat and specific disease was first noted by the Englishman William Fletcher in 1905 while researching the causes of the disease beriberi. He observed that the disease was prevented by eating unpolished rather than polished rice. He concluded that the husk of rice must have special nutrients, which we know today as vitamins.
Even before this discovery, fruits and vegetables were known to prevent and cure many diseases. Even though what we now know as “vitamins” were unknown, many of their benefits were well recognized.
Even today English sailors are known as “Limeys” because, when limes were added to their diets, they no longer suffered from scurvy.
While vitamins prevent and cure some...
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