Every one of us has gone through a stage in life where our mother makes us eat vegetables and fruits containing all the essential vitamins and other nutrients. Of course, making children eat a balanced diet is a huge task for mothers in any era. One mother blackmails the child, another makes a deal of extra TV hour during weekends in return if the child eats vegetables. The smartest of them all is my mother; she pounds and mixes all the vegetables into the rice. She does the mixing so good that I feel cheated when she reveals it after a week. Now I do the same insane thing for my children too and the cruelest part is that I have not even confessed the truth to my children yet!
So why do I do that to my child? why are vitamins so important?
Let's find out! What is a vitamin?
These vitamins do not stay in the body for long and need to be replaced more often than fat-soluble vitamins. Vitamin C and B are the water-soluble vitamins.
Now, we know what vitamins are, but what exactly are its uses?
The deficiency includes Night blindness and diminished immune system function. Symptoms include infection, inability to see in dim light, dry eyes and dry skin.
Deficiency Symptoms include anemia confusion in older adults, fatigue, memory loss and shortness of breath.
Helps in maintaining and repairing bones, teeth, healing wounds etc.
The deficiency is scurvy and the symptoms are coiled hair, irritability, weight loss, swollen gums and muscle weakness.
Helps in reducing the risk of certain carvers like the cancer of breast, colon, prostate, skin, and pancreas.
Vitamin D together with the help of calm helps in strengthening bones.
Deficiency of vitamin D is rickets and the symptoms include deformation of bones, fatigue and muscle weakness.
The deficiency of vitamin E is abetalipoproteinemia and the symptoms include poor transmission of nerve impulses, muscle weakness.
Helps a vital role in blood clotting.
It is used to prevent and treat weak bones.
The symptoms include blood in urine or stool, oozing from nose or gums, easy bruising and heavy menstrual periods for women.
It is important that we take a full balanced meal in our everyday lives. Life is too precious to be stubborn to eat the necessary vitamins needed for our body. Hope you find out a newer way to trick your children to eat nutrients in more crazier ways. May you and your loved ones live a happy, healthy and a long life.