SUNSHINE VITAMIN
Journal Title: Journal of Evidence Based Medicine and Healthcare - Year 2014, Vol 1, Issue 7
Abstract
Vitamin is an organic chemical compound which can’t be synthesized in sufficient quantities by an organism and must be obtained from diet. Vitamin D is not essential dietary vitamin in strict sense. 8 It is synthesized in adequate amounts by most mammals exposed to sun. Surprisingly, cats and dogs can’t synthesize vitamin D and must receive it in diet. As with other compounds called vitamins, vitamin-D was discovered as to find the dietary substance that was lacking in a disease, namely, rickets
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Virendra Kr. Goyal
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