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What is a vitamin?

What is a vitamin? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any of a specific group of organic compounds essential in small quantities for healthy human growth, metabolism, development, and body function; found in minute amounts in plant and animal foods or sometimes produced synthetically; deficiencies of specific vitamins produce specific disorders.
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Cataract patients also tend to be deficient in vitamin A and the carotenes, lutein and zeaxanthin.
Some of our top models appear so alarmingly under-nourished, I always feel like rushing some food and vitamin pills to them.
In addition, persons that are strict vegetarians or have macrobiotic diets may need vitamin B 12 supplements.
Due to its lipophilic nature, vitamin E accumulates in cellular membranes, fat deposits and other circulating lipoproteins.
It is at this time that we should especially forage for the early spring greens and vitamin rich edible weeds.
In one Scottish study of terminally ill cancer patients, those given vitamin C lived four times as long as those who weren't given it.

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