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Approximately half of the people in the United States take vitamin supplements, and some use alarmingly high doses. In this article, physiological functions of vitamins and the effects of vitamin deficiencies are summarized. Common food sources of vitamins are listed and a suggested daily eating guide is provided to assist in proper food intake. Adding vitamin supplements to a poor diet may alleviate some symptoms of deficiency, but cannot compensate for the lack of other nutrients. For optimum health, balanced, wholesome meals are recommended.
Supply of the main and doubling crews of cosmonauts with vitamins C, A, D, E, B1, B2, B6, PP, and B12, folic acid and carotinoids was studied during training and after the completion of short-term space flights (from 4 to 13 days). As the result of the investigation conducted during the intensive training, 1 month before the space flight some cases of certain vitamins deficiency were revealed. Administration of additional vitamins during 2 weeks before the flight led to a rise in the cosmonauts' supply with vitamins. The findings obtained after the short-term space flights evidence an intensive metabolization of vitamins and increased vitamin requirements during this period.
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In order to find out whether any age- or sex-related changes in vitamin nutrition or if any vitamin deficiencies can be detected in apparently healthy school children, blood vitamins (A, B1, B2, B6, C, and E) were determined in 111 children (54 boys and 57 girls), who took part in a longitudinal nutritional program. Most of the adolescents were examined yearly 5 times every year and afterwards two years later; at the begin of the study their age was 11 years, at the end 17 years. The results of vitamin determinations show for the most parameters age dependent changes, levels for Vitamin A, B1, and B2 becoming higher with increasing age, for Vitamin C in contrast markedly unfavorable. Using the criteria for risk for deficiency from adults a comparatively high percentage of adolescents must be considered to be at risk for deficiency (up to 30% for Vitamin B6). As this study shows partly statistically significant correlations between growth and some vitamin levels (e.g., for Vitamin A and E), age and sex related criteria for the assessment of vitamin status in adolescents should be made available. The results in general show that also in apparently healthy school-children subclinical biochemical vitamin deficiencies can be detected. This fact however, should be taken in consideration in planing and providing guidelines for an optimal nutritional program in adolescence.
Metabolism of organophosphate pesticide trichlorometaphos-3 and its effect on liver monooxygenase system were studied in male rats of WAG strain, maintained on a diet deficient in lysine, methionine, threonine and vitamins A, C, E. Long-term deficiency of these essential nutrients led to inhibition of monooxygenase induction in acute intoxication with pesticide (150 mg/kg) and to restriction of the induction in chronic intoxication (3 mg/kg) within 3 and 6 months. As a result of the intoxication highly toxic intermediate 2,4,5-trichlorophenol was accumulated in liver tissue of the animals kept on the disbalanced diet. The data obtained suggest that the increased accumulation of 2,4,5-trichlorophenol in liver tissue, as a result of intoxication with trichlorometaphos-3, potentiated the effect of essential nutrients deficiency on stimulation of the monooxygenase system.
From a systematic neonatal screening for cystic fibrosis in the Basse-Normandie area and to prevent disorders of the intestinal transit related to malabsorption, neonates then infants were given a semi-elemental hypercaloric diet, with supplements in nitrogen, MCT, minerals, vitamins and low in LCT. Diets were adjusted every month during a consultation using clinical and biological parameters. Results in the first 14 children showed that clinically as well as biologically, these children may remain within the normal range, avoiding the previously reported growth retardation and mineral or vitamin deficiencies. This procedure should allow an improvement in the quality of life and prognosis of such children, by maintaining adequate nutritional status.
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Healthy adult men and healthy adult nonpregnant, nonlactating women consuming a usual, varied diet do not need vitamin supplements. Infants may need dietary supplements at given times, as may pregnant and lactating women. Occasionally, vitamin supplements may be useful for people with unusual life styles or modified diets, including certain weight reduction regimens and strict vegetarian diets. Vitamins in therapeutic amounts may be indicated for the treatment of deficiency states, for pathologic conditions in which absorption and utilization of vitamins are reduced or requirements increased, and for certain nonnutritional disease processes. The decision to employ vitamin preparations in therapeutic amounts clearly rests with the physician. The importance of medical supervision when such amounts are administered is emphasized. Therapeutic vitamin mixtures should be so labeled and should not be used as dietary supplements.
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Malnutrition combined with susceptibility to infection threatens the health and survival of a large portion of the world's population. Of the many components of the host-parasite relation, nutrition has not received the attention it deserves. There has been increasing activity in recent years on the elucidation of the role nutritional factors play in the behavior of both host and parasite.This paper reviews the effects vitamins exert on the course of parasitic infections.
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