PBHL 1104 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7 : Vitamin, Cod Liver Oil, Beta-Carotene

• School: Temple University
• Department: Public Health
• Course: PBHL 1104
• Professor: Dr.Cloutier

Document Summary

The only disease a vitamin can cure is the one caused by a deficiency of that vitamin. Vitamins- organic compounds that are vital to life and indispensable to body functions but that are needed only in minute amounts; essential, noncaloric nutrients . These vitamins may fall below the recommended intakes. Precursors- compounds that can be converted into active vitamins also called provitamins. solubility of vitamins gives them their characteristics. Determines how they are absorbed into and transported around by the bloodstream. Fat soluble vitamins stored in liver or with other lipids in fat tissue absorbed into lymph and travel in blood with protein carriers. Can sometimes build up from toxic build up. Water soluble absorbed directly into bloodstream where they travel freely. Most are not stored in the tissue excess are excreted. Fat soluble vitamins adek require bile for absorption. Body can survive for weeks without consuming them.