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Vitamins: United States
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Vitamins are micronutrients that are essential to life and healthy living. And, as everyone is aware, failing to get the necessary amounts of specific vitamins can cause deficiency states that are unhealthy and even dangerous.
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Many vitamins are made with artificial colors, crude oil, coal tar, pesticides, and contaminants, including lead. Many of these ingredients never dissolve in the digestive tract, and can actually make you sick. Manufacturers often overstate the amount of active ingredients on the labels, and do not have established controls to insure their product actually includes what is stated on the label.
Certain other class of substances is ... occasionally considered to be essential vitamins for human beings. However, the status of vitamin has not been applicable to them and the status of vitamin has not been established for these compounds. Compound that are considered at par with vitamins are: para-aminobenzoic acid (PABA), the compound choline; the lipoic acid; the compound inositol; ubiquinone or coenzyme Q10, plant based pigments called bioflavonoids and the compound called L-carnitine. Some of these compounds have been found to have vitamin like activity in some animals other than human beings.
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