Your essential guide to vitamins and minerals.
The word “Vitamin” is previously composed of two parts “vital” which means essential and ’amine” because they thought that this compound is amine in its nature.

Multivitamins are mixture of vitamins and minerals which is essential for our body to work and stay healthy.

we sometimes try multivitamins supplements without knowing what kind of vitamins and minerals we take, and the function of every element which we will discuss here

The Essential Vitamins
There are two types of vitamins, fat soluble vitamins (vitamins which dissolve in fat) which are vitamin A, D, E and K, and Water soluble vitamins which are B complex, C, and folate (folic acid).

Fat Soluble Vitamins
Vitamin A:
Functions: Growth, development, enhancement of our immune system and essential for our eyes especially night vision.

Deficiency signs: Night blindness, skin problems with increase our rate of acquiring infection

Great Natural sources: liver, kidney, eggs and fish liver oil.

Vitamin D:
Functions: Bone formation throw controlling calcium absorption and excretion and recent studies find that vitamin d may inhibits some forms of cancer growth.

Deficiency signs: Rickets (disease characterized by deformities in skeleton especially hands, legs and chest bones, pain in the bones and weakness in muscles)

Great Natural sources: Cod liver oil, milk, eggs, liver and oily fish like.