Vitamin deficiency

Today, at least in industrialized countries like ours, serious vitamin deficiencies are a distant memory. Despite this, according to various scholars, a not inconsiderable slice of the population continues to suffer from slight vitamin deficiencies, which because of their superficiality produce aspecific and poorly recognizable symptoms, such as fatigue, difficulty concentrating, weakness, infection and digestive disorders.

The main defendant of these deficiencies is an increasingly poor diet of whole foods and fresh raw vegetables, in favor of high-calorie snacks, sugars, fast food and alcohol, which has a deleterious effect on the absorption of many vitamins. Smoking also increases the vitamin requirements, in particular of ascorbic acid. The picture is completed by the mineral impoverishment of the land, the intensive cultivation methods, the industrial processing processes and the long storage times of the plants, all factors that impoverish these foods of their precious load of vitamins, facilitating the appearance of deficient episodes.

Below is the complete list of site articles dedicated to specific deficiencies of individual vitamins:

Deficiency of vitamin B1 or thiamine: Beri-Beri

Vitamin B2 deficiency or riblofavin

Deficiency of niacin, vitamin B3 or PP: pellagra

Vitamin B6 or pyridoxine deficiency

Deficiency of vitamin B9 or folic acid: spina bifida and hyperhomocysteinemia

Vitamin B12 deficiency: pernicious anemia

Vitamin C deficiency: scurvy

Vitamin A or retinol deficiency

Vitamin D deficiency: osteomalacia in adults and rickets in children

Vitamin E or tocopherol deficiency

Vitamin K deficiency

Alcoholism and Vitamin Deficiency