FAT SOLUBLE VITAMINS
Small amounts of vitamins A, D, E and K are needed to maintain good health. Foods that contain these vitamins will not lose them when cooked.
VITAMIN A - also known as Retinol. It is found in carrots, green and yellow vegetables, milk, butter, cheese and fortified margarine, according to Feuer margarine is only one molecule away from plastic, it also contain in fish liver oil.
Vitamin A is necessary for the sight specifically “night sight” to see things at night. It is also needed for the maintenance of epithelial tissue and for the basic growth of the body and bone development. Vitamin C and vitamin A is very important for the matrix. If you are deficit of it you will have night blindness, bones and teeth do not develop properly.
VITAMIN K – It is important for clotting mechanism. It is found green leafy vegetables, alfalfa, cabbage and in liver. It has a major body function in blood clotting mechanism. If you have not vitamin K you will have prolong clotting time or bleeding tendencies.
Vitamin K is made in the intestines and made by the bacteria that lives in the intestines that is why we give vitamin K when babies are born because their bowels are sterile, don't have the bacteria in the bowel yet to make vitamin K.
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