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Let’s start by considering the cardiovascular effects of a certain vitamin, Healthium.
When you look at vitamin B1 and vitamin B2, there's about a 17 percent decline.
Pantothenic acid, vitamin B5, is about a 13 percent decline.
It's very destructive, but it also catalyzes the production of vitamin D in the skin, vitamin D being a molecule that we very much need for our strong bones, the health of our immune system, and myriad other important functions in our bodies.
But it's all UVA, and, significantly, that UVA has no ability to make vitamin D in your skin.
So people inhabiting northern hemispheric environments were bereft of the potential to make vitamin D in their skin for most of the year.
Because the problem there is just as severe, but it is more sinister, because vitamin D deficiency, from a lack of ultraviolet B radiation, is a major problem.
Vitamin D deficiency creeps up on people, and causes all sorts of health problems to their bones, to their gradual decay of their immune systems, or loss of immune function, and probably some problems with their mood and health, their mental health.
They also run the risk of vitamin D deficiency, if they have desk jobs, like that guy.
Basically, about half of the world's population is lacking in iron, zinc, iodine and vitamin A. If we invest about 12 billion dollars, we could make a severe inroad into that problem.
Should I take vitamin C? Should I be taking wheatgrass?
But I have some goofs I would like to report, in the scene where she is putting her groceries away in the fridge, we see her pull out 1,2,3 vitamin waters and stick them all in the same place but when the camera backs up, there is only 2 vitamin waters.
We can prevent millions from dying from malnutrition simply by distributing vitamin supplements.
An estimated two billion people do not receive the essential vitamins and minerals they need to grow and thrive – notably, iron, iodine, vitamin A, and zinc.
And in the 1930s, vitamin A-fortified milk and flour enriched with iron and B vitamins were introduced in a number of developed countries.
Haiti’s fortification project will focus on enriching wheat flour with iron and folic acid, vegetable oils with vitamin A, and salt with iodine.
For example, ten years of studies of the possible health effects of a class of carbon-based nanomaterials known as fullerenes report that the soccer-ball-shaped fullerene molecules known as “buckyballs,” are powerful antioxidants, comparable in strength to vitamin E. Other studies report that some types of buckyballs can be toxic to tumor cells.
But what works is no secret: vitamin A, iodized salt, and fortified foods.
The lack of vitamin A alone results in blindness in a half-million children every year, with half of them dying within 12 months of losing their sight.
Some recent therapeutic possibilities include the co-infusion of haptoglobin with hemoglobin in circulation or with vitamin C – additives that hold promising implications for the development of safe and effective blood substitutes.
Over those 12 years, about eight million children worldwide died from vitamin A deficiency.
Three billion people depend on rice as their staple food, with 10% at risk for vitamin A deficiency, which, according to the World Health Organization, causes 250,000-500,000 children to go blind each year.
A study from the British medical journal The Lancet estimates that, in total, vitamin A deficiency kills 668,000 children under the age of five each year.
Yet, despite the cost in human lives, anti-GM campaigners – from Greenpeace to Naomi Klein – have derided efforts to use golden rice to avoid vitamin A deficiency.
The New York Times Magazinereported in 2001 that one would need to “eat 15 pounds of cooked golden rice a day” to get enough vitamin A. What was an exaggeration then is demonstrably wrong now.
Two recent studies in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition show that just 50 grams (roughly two ounces) of golden rice can provide 60% of the recommended daily intake of vitamin A. They show that golden rice is even better than spinach in providing vitamin A to children.
Opponents maintain that there are better ways to deal with vitamin A deficiency.
To be sure, handing out vitamin pills or adding vitamin A to staple products can make a difference.
But it is not a sustainable solution to vitamin A deficiency.
But golden rice would cost just $100 for every life saved from vitamin A deficiency.
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