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Vitamins 365

A. Vitamin supply

Healthy
nutrition
Vitamin require-
ment satisfied

Vitamin poisoning
Poor nutrition Vitamin
Malnutrition A and D
Antibiotics Vitamin intake
Disturbed Hypervitaminosis
resorption
Overdose Excess
Hypo- vitamins
Diseases
vitaminosis Urine

B. Lipid-soluble vitamins

* Adult daily Provitamin Functional form Important for
* requirement

β-Carotene
Retinal Sight
A Vegetables
H 3 C CH 3 CH 3 CH 3 Fruit Visual pigments
CH 2 OH
Retinol Retinol Sugar
CH 3
transport
1 Coenzyme
Milk
Liver
Egg yolk Retinoic acid Development
D Differentiation
H 3 C CH 3 Signal molecule
H 3 C
Cholesterol
CH 3
uv

Calciol Calcitriol Calcium
CH 2
metabolism
0.01 Hormone
HO
Cod liver oil
Milk
Egg yolk
E
CH 3
HO
Tocopherols Tocopherols
CH 3 Anti-
H oxidant
H 3 C O 10 Reducing agent
CH 3
3
CH 3 Cereals
Liver
Eggs
Seed oil
K O
Blood clotting
CH 3 Phyllohydro-
Phylloquinones (carboxylation
quinones of plasma
H 0.08 proteins)
O CH 3 Intestinal
4 bacteria
Vegetables
Liver

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