Vitamins

This fascinating book is part of an important series introducing young students to the nutrients inside food.
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It uses simple, clear language to explore the role of food in a healthy lifestyle, and explain the role that vitamins play in maintaining good health and in a balanced diet.

Vitamins explains what vitamins are, how they help keep our bodies healthy and where they fit into a balanced diet.

Special features:
• annotated photographs
• pictorial tables showing the proportion of nutrients in different foods
• diagrams explaining how nutrients affect different parts of the body and how they are digested

Contents
What’s in my food?
What nutrients are in my food?
Vitamins
What are vitamins?
How does my body get vitamins?
What do vitamins do?
Vitamin A helps my eyesight
Vitamin B helps me get oxygen
Vitamin C helps me to stay healthy
Vitamin D helps my bones and teeth
Vitamin E helps my eyes, skin and liver
Vitamin K helps my blood to clot
Which foods contain vitamins?
Vitamin supplements
What happens if I don’t eat vitamins?
Glossary
Index