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Deficiency of vitamins and diet
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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How much food is rich in essential vitamins
To answer this question, it would be necessary to understand how vitamins are generally replenished with a variety of food products in the body, when a person is exposed to extraneous diverse factors.
Various factors can significantly affect the presence of vitamins. These different pathogens can affect the fluctuations in the content of vitamins.
Here, for example, when the milk is boiled, a significant amount of vitamins leaves it. Who would like to drink milk, in which there is practically no vitamins? Yes, milk is due to vitamins and is drunk! Conclusion - milk is not recommended to boil.
Europeans love vegetables
Europeans love to eat vegetables. Mostly they consume vegetables grown in greenhouses. And the fact that they are not indifferent to vegetables are a proven fact, since vegetables are consumed by Europeans for 9 months a year.
And vegetables are from the greenhouse. Greenhouse vegetables are much poorer in vitamins than those that grow on open beds, under direct sunlight.
How unstable are vitamins
After your products have been lying in the refrigerator for three days, the vitamins in them are getting 30% less than they should be. At room temperature, the vitamin index is even worse. For 3 days, which carried out the products at room temperature, they become poorer in vitamins by as much as 50%.
If you process your future food in the thermal way, then 25% of vitamins useful for the body, and sometimes 90-100%, can run out.
Pay attention to the fact that vitamins lose their structure in the light as well. Most of all he is "afraid" of vitamin B2, and vitamin A is unstable to ultraviolet radiation.
Another "poor" of vitamins are processed and peeled vegetables (without peel).
Whatever product is considered useful, and how much it does not contain vitamins, it loses its qualities in any treatment. Affects the preservation of vitamins pasteurization, drying, freezing, storage in metal containers and various mechanical effects.
Weather conditions affect the vitamin composition
Depending on the weather conditions (from the season), the same vegetables or fruits grown on the same land may have different degrees of nutrients.
When calculating the benefits for a person of food that he eats, it became clear that even with a good and balanced diet, a modern person needs about 2500 Kcal per day. Despite this, vitamins, even if this standard is observed, falls into the body 20-30% less than it should.
The production of enzymes and acids
The whole problem is that certain processes in the body occur only in the combined effects of specific vitamins, while they are taken at the same time. Let's say that the body needs to produce lactic acid and this requires three different vitamins. In the absence of even one vitamin from this "trinity", lactic acid will not be produced.
Can a person eat only fruits and not suffer from a lack of vitamins
If you seriously started to maintain your body with vitamins, then the apple certainly does not play a significant role. In fact, one can not completely compensate for the lack of vitamins with only one fruit, even if it is kilograms every day. And all because you need normal life and immunity, you need ascorbic acid, folic acid, carotene and so on.
No fruit or vegetable can fully give you these necessary components, which feed the body and help it in stable working capacity. Apple juice contains only 2 milligrams of vitamin C per 100 grams of juice. To make up the daily intake of vitamin C for the body (60 mg), you have to drink at least 15 glasses of apple juice per day.
The sources of vitamin B and fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E are meat products, eggs, kidneys, liver, milk, butter, bread, cereals. And these vitamins are contained in buckwheat, oatmeal, brown rice and wheat. But again it is impossible not to note the fact that the number of vitamins needed for consumption and the amount that a person is physically able to eat can not be called an equivalent exchange.
In vitamins our strength
In vitamins our strength, a lot of positive. It is impossible to neglect such important components for the work of our body as vitamins. They sometimes win back the most important roles when eating or when immunity tries to fight infection with all its might.