31^st European Nutrition and Dietetics Conference

Vitaminology and Lipidology

Vitamins are biological constituents in food that are required in traces amounts for development and for upholding good health. The vitamins comprise vitamin E k, vitamin D, vitamin K, vitamin A, and folate, biotin, vitamin B12, vitamin B6, thiamin, niacin, pantothenic acid, riboflavin, and vitamin C. Vitamins are essential in the food in simply minute amounts, in disparity to the energy constituents of the diet. The energy constituents of the diet are sugars, fats, starches, these occur in comparatively huge quantities in the diet. Maximum of the vitamins are strictly related with a consistent vitamin insufficiency disease. Vitamin D, eficiency pointers to diseases of the bones for instance osteoporosis. Vitamin E insufficiency happens lone infrequently, and leads to nerve damage. Vitamin A insufficiency is shared through the inferior portions of the world, and reasons night blindness. Serious vitamin A insufficiency cans consequence in xerophthalamia, a disorder which, if gone unprocessed, marks in total blindness. Vitamin K insufficiency leads in impulsive hemorrhage. Slight or reasonable folate insufficiency is quite general thing through the world, and can consequence from the disability to eat green, leafy vegetables and fruits. Folate insufficiency sources megaloblastic anemia, which is described by the attendance of big abnormal cells called megaloblasts in the mixing blood. The indications of megaloblastic anemia are drowsiness and weakness.