Healthy Habits

Vitamins are crucial to your good health. Some vitamins help to improve your immune system so your body can fight off harmful bacteria. Some vitamins work with the protein you eat to help regulate the metabolic activity in your body, giving you more energy throughout the day and aiding in weight loss. There are many [...]

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Vitamins are micro-nutrients. They were discovered by Eijkman (1897) in Indonesia, Java, while studying a disease called beriberi common among natives whose main diet was rice. He noticed that fowl fed on polished rice, developed beri beri, but not when fed on crudely milled rice.
In 1911 Funk obtained an alcoholic extract of the outer husk [...]

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