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Article: How Stuff Works: A vitamin's work is never done
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- Capital (Annapolis)
- Article date:
- November 11, 2007
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Every day of your life, chances are you think about vitamins. You
read about vitamin content on the nutritional label of every food
you eat. Breakfast cereals and many drinks talk about vitamins right
on the label. Then there are all the TV and radio spots advertising
vitamins. You may even take a vitamin pill when you wake up.
It all begs the question: What, exactly, is a vitamin? Vitamin C,
for example: What is it? And why do you need to "take" vitamin C
every day?
Here is the basic definition of a vitamin: A vitamin is a small
molecule that your body must have in order to carry out a certain
chemical reaction. In some cases your body has no way to create
vitamin molecules itself, so the ...
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