Structural Performance Podcast

Episode #26 A Brief Primer On Vitamins, And Where To Find Them in Food   ·        Vitamins were discovered in the early 1900s’ and began the era of modern interest in diet and nutrition. ·        Early chemists found that certain “unknown substances” in foods were essential to life. ·        Vitamins such as vitamin D and B were necessary to prevent diseases such as rickets, beriberi, and pellagra and that vitamin C, a factor present in many fresh foods, prevented scurvy.   Why we need vitamins: ·         Consumption of sugar, refined flour and hydrogenated fats, and of alcohol, tobacco, and many drugs, depletes the body of nutrients, resulting in higher vitamin and mineral requirements for users.   ·        Stress of any sort (food, chemical, emotional, physical, etc) causes the body to use up available nutrients at a faster than normal rate.   ·        Food science is much more complicated and nuanced than we first imagined- it is an ongoing and emerging field (even after 100 years!)   ·        US RDA has