4th International Conference on Womens Health and Fitness

Vegetables & Fruits are known as protective foods. Our body needs vitamins and minerals for several vital processes of life and for evolution of blood, bones and teeth. These vitamins & minerals however needed in fewer quantities are very crucial for regulating various bodily functions. They help to enlarge bones, heal wounds, and support your immune system. They also exchange food into energy, and repair cellular damage. Vitamins and minerals proceed under a balanced diet and are they are known   as protective food because they help in protecting the body against several diseases. Foods containing the required amount of vitamins and minerals such as vegetables, eggs, meat, milk etc. are advanced for eating as they provide resistance to the body against many deficiency diseases such as scurvy, beri beri, etc. Vitamin and Minerals are called protective foods because vitamin and minerals protect our body and they give energy to our body so that microorganisms not are a...

  Vitamin deficiency is the state of a long-term absence of a vitamin. When caused by not enough vitamin ingestion it is intimated as a primary deficiency, whereas when due to a basic disorder such as malabsorption it is known a secondary deficiency. An basic disorder as it may be metabolic   as in a genetic flaw for changing tryptophan to niacin   or from way of life that increase vitamin needs, which means smoking or drinking alcohol. Executive instructions on vitamin deficiencies counsel certain intakes for healthy people, with limited values for women, babies, men, the elderly, and through pregnancy or breastfeeding. So many countries have directed vitamin food defenses programs to avert commonly happening vitamin deficiencies . Vitamin A Deficiency: Vitamin A deficiency or hypovitaminosis A is  a absence of vitamin A in blood and tissues . It is usual in poorer countries, mainly among women and children of reproductive health age, but is hardly seen in more...