Vitamins For a Healthy Life

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Vitamins For a Healthy Life

• How Did We Discover Them and What are They?
• Why does my body need them?

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Vitamins What are they?

• They are chemicals found in foods
• You cannot see them
• They are not in the water you drink or the air
  you breathe
• Most of them have no taste

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What are Vitamins?
Minerals in rocks
Ultraviolet rays
Invisible chemicals
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Vitamins-Where does my body get them from?

• There are 13 vitamins and each one does
  something important for your body to stay healthy
  
• You get them from the foods you eat, vitamin
  pills, or from enriched foods or dietary
  supplements

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Vitamins- What do they do for me?

• Today we know of 13 vitamins that help keep your
  body well
• You need all of them to grow strong and healthy
  and free from diseases
• You only need them in small amounts

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How many vitamins does your body need?
10
15
18
13
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Learn about

• Vitamins

• Diseases

Scurvy
B
A
Beriberi
C
D
RDA
E
K
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Diseases-You can get SCURVY from not enough
Vitamin C

• The cause of a disease called Scurvy was a
  mystery
• Scientists searched for it in polluted water,
  rotted foods, in poisons, and they even looked
  for a survey germ.
• The search had come to a dead end UNTIL.

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How did we Discover Vitamin Deficiency Diseases?

• It was discovered that Sailors suffered from a
  disease called SCURVY- gums bleed, teeth fall
  out, your skin bruises easily, and you can die
  from it
• In 1740, Dr James Lind a Scottish ships doctor
  found that sailors who ate citrus fruits were
  cured of their scurvy. If there is no Vitamin C
  in your diet you could get Scurvy.

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Foods that give you Vitamin C -Eat which food and
you wont get Scurvy?
Click on the correct food choice
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The Scientific Discovery of Vitamins A and B

• In 1913 scientists discovered chemical substances
  they called vitamins
• The first ones were called Vitamin A and Vitamin
  B
• In 1928 a white powder was extracted from
  oranges and cabbages.
• It was discovered this powder cured scurvy. It is
  was named ascorbic acid. It come from the Greek
  word meaning no scurvy
• Now we call ascorbic acid Vitamin C

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Foods in the B Vitamin Family-You can find them
in almost all plants and animal foods
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What are the EIGHT B Vitamins called?

• B1-Thiamine
• B2-Riboflavin
• B3-Niacin
• B6- Pyridoxine
• B12- Cobalomine
• Biotin
• Pantothenic Acid
• Folic Acid

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What happens if you dont get your Vitamins?

• Our bodies become sick!
• We can get diseases like

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The Beriberi Disease

• In the Orient far away another mysterious disease
  affected thousands of people
• Its cause was unknown
• A Japanese Scientist found that when the Oriental
  people added meat and vegetables to their diet of
  white rice the beriberi went away. The B
  Vitamins found in these foods cured them..

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Without your RDA of Vitamins-Which Deficiency
Causes Which Disease?
Lack of A B causes Scurvy
Lack of C causes Scurvy
Lack of A C causes Beriberi
Lack of B causes Beriberi
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More Diseases people can get from not getting
their RDA of vitamins

• RDA is the recommended daily allowance by the
  US Dept of Agriculture
• Rickets-the main symptom is softening of the
  bones.
• Pellagra-The main symptoms are itching, red
  skin, and general weakness.

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Why do we need Vitamins?

• It was discovered that it was not what people ate
  that gave them these diseases but it was what
  they didnt eat
• Scientists discovered if you dont get your daily
  vitamins you will get sick

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If You eat Citrus Fruits- what Vitamin is your
body getting?

• Click on the correct Vitamin answer below
• Vitamin A
• Vitamin C

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Vitamin Review

• How many Vitamins are there? Click on the right
  answer!
• 9 12 13 23

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All Vitamins are Fat OR Water Soluble- Click
on one to Learn More!
Water Soluble Vitamins
Versus
Fat Soluble Vitamins
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Water Soluble Vitamins are NOT stored in your body

• Vitamins are divided into two kinds water
  soluble and fat soluble
• Vitamins B and C are water soluble
• We need to eat these everyday
• Our bodies dont store them
• Vitamins B and C leave our bodies in urine and
  perspiration

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Fat Soluble Vitamins ARE stored in your body

• The fat soluble vitamins are A, D E, and K
• They are stored in your body in fat cells

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Which Vitamins are stored in your Body?
Fat Soluble- Vitamins A, D, E, and K
Water Soluble- Vitamins A and C
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The Vitamin B Family has 8 different kinds of B
vitamins that

• Build new body cells
• Keep the nervous system and digestive
• tract working well
• Keep your blood, skin, and hair healthy

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Vitamin B- You need to eat foods daily that
contain Vitamin B

• It is found in meats, fish, eggs, cheese,
  grains, green vegetables, apricots, milk, liver,
  peanut butter, wheat germ, and almost all plant
  and animal foods

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Vitamin B-The Family

• Are called the B-complex because all eight of
  them are found in so many of the same foods.
• Pick and Click on the correct food choice on
  this page for a source high in Vitamin B

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Vitamin AWhat does it do in your Body?

• It affects how well we see in dim light.
• It helps keep skin, nails, and hair health
• Foods with Vitamin A are carrots, sweet
  potatoes, egg yolks, yellow vegetables

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Foods that are great sources of Vitamin A
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Click on the food Not high in Vitamin A

• Pick the correct one and click on it

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Vitamin C is found in these foods
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Vitamin C

• Builds strong muscles, body cells, and blood
  vessels
• It prevents scurvy
• Humans must get their Vitamin C from what they
  eat but some animals can make it on their own.

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Pick the food with the best source of Vitamin
C-Click on it
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Vitamin D

• Helps bones grow
• Helps form healthy teeth
• It helps the body use calcium to prevent rickets
• It is known as the sunshine vitamin because a
  substance in our skin is made into Vitamin D in
  daylight

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Foods that have Vitamin D
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Which Food is a good source for Vitamin D?
Click on the correct picture
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Vitamin K Helps your blood clot when you get
scrapes and cuts. It helps heal our scrapes and
cuts
To get Vitamin K in your diet you should eat
green vegetables, potatoes, liver, cereals, and
egg yolks
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Where do Vitamins come from?

• All vitamins can come from natural foods
• Since scientists learned how to separate pure
  vitamins from foods they have also learned to
  make them from chemicals
• we call these synthetic vitamins

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When we dont get all of our Vitamins what
Happens ?

• Click on the correct picture

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Looking for foods with Vitamin B

• In which foods can you find Vitamin B?
• Pick the correct food source and click on it

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What Food is a Great Source of Vitamin A?
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Vitamin E

• Helps to keep your blood healthy
• MILK, VEGETABLE OILS, POTATOES, LIVER,
  CABBAGE, AND CEREALS ALL HAVE VITAMIN E

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• What food is NOT a source of Vitamin E?
• Click on it!

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Lets Review-What Type of Vitamins does your body
store?

• Click on the correct answer
• Fat Soluble OR
• Water Soluble

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Make a Healthy Choice

• What food choice has Vitamin K in it?

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How can you be sure your body gets the Vitamins
you need?

• Eat the right foods and serving amounts from the
  Food Pyramid daily and you will get all your
  required vitamins
• You can take vitamin pills approved by your
  Doctor

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Enjoy Good Foods and a Healthy Lifestyle
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Diseases-You can get SCURVY from not enough
Vitamin C

• The cause of a disease called Scurvy was a
  mystery
• Scientists searched for it in polluted water,
  rotted foods, in poisons, and they even looked
  for a survey germ.
• The search had come to a dead end UNTIL.