Showing posts with label #Primer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #Primer. Show all posts

Friday, November 25, 2011

Too much or too little, the importance of Vitamin A

by: Shereena Sakhrani

Vitamin A is an essential fat-soluble nutrient that plays a big part in your health but what’s it really for? Well Vitamin A plays a key role in your vision growth, bone development, reproduction, immune function, and healthy epithelial tissues.





Tuesday, November 22, 2011

The ABC's of Vitamins

by: Richard Dias

One average, Americans drop about $2.3 billion a year on supplement and vitamins. That right, billion. With all this money being pumped into these little flintstones-shaped pills, one would think that vitamins would be far less mysterious little critters.

If you’re like most adults, your fondest, early memories of vitamins were having them forced into you in the same, hated fashion like so much brussel sprouts and cabbage. But what exactly are vitamins?