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vitamin

(Science: biochemistry) An essential low molecular weight organic compound required in trace amounts for normal growth and metabolic processes. They usually serve as components of coenzyme systems.

For humans vitamin A, the B series, C, D1 and D2, E and K are required. Deficiencies of one or more vitamins in the nutrient supply result in deficiency diseases.


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Re: Any SOLID arguments against evolution?

... understanding of white-skin origin is that after diverging from african populations, northern populations lost pigment in a selective response to vitamin deficiency. ?? It is also my understanding that "black" people are also a divergence from the evolutionary predecessors, who were ...

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by AstusAleator
Sat May 30, 2009 12:57 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Any SOLID arguments against evolution?
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Views: 1554

Question about copper and Wilson disease??

Copper is an element not a complex molecule like a vitamin, and unless you are a star or a fusion nuclear reactor, no synthesis of elements de novo is possible. That is why nobody actually cares to point that out.

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by canalon
Mon May 11, 2009 6:11 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Question about copper and Wilson disease??
Replies: 3
Views: 111

Stomach bloating and weight gain

... But why? I think it's just another symptom of what is really wrong. I am now seeing an Endocrinologist. He is testing me for Cushing's, Vitamin D deficiency, and checking for possible allergies to dyes, found in many prescription drugs, foods and juice-like drinks. I am shocked to read ...

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by Ortahome
Thu Apr 30, 2009 6:10 pm
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: Stomach bloating and weight gain
Replies: 251
Views: 400258

Re: Fitness and Diet

... role in the diet to fibre, making potatoes less fattening than many suppose. Potatoes also contain a whole heap of valuable nutrients, from vitamin C up. The United Nations declared 2008 to be the Year of the Potato, and for good reason. Corn is full of good fibre. Just avoid adding saturated ...

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by skeptic
Tue Apr 28, 2009 10:37 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Fitness and Diet
Replies: 14
Views: 499

Re: How bones get their calcium

After checking the link and wikiing the important words, I've found that it is the Vitamin D that does something to the intestines that increases calcium absorption or something along those lines. Would this be accurate? Also, you mentioned a chemical reaction that ...

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by brendan928
Sun Apr 19, 2009 5:41 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: How bones get their calcium
Replies: 4
Views: 321
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