April 2012
Beginner to intermediate
336 pages
11h 26m
English
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Chapter 4. Micronutrients: Vitamins, Minerals, and Phytochemicals
Tiny components can have huge effects. Even if you’re not a weather scientist who embraces Chaos Theory (the flutter of a butterfly’s wings in Mexico changes weather patterns in America), you know a computer chip the size of a fingertip can contain millions of invisible gates, and the loss of that chip means that the seven-million-pixel Photoshop montage you’ve been working on for that DVD cover just vanished forever.
The Nutrient That Roared
A seemingly innocuous glitch can bring down software programs comprising hundreds of thousands of code lines. Ever heard of that impossible-to-find “divide by zero” bug? Just because something is small doesn’t mean that its influence isn’t giant. Such is the case with the micronutrients in our diet.
“Vitamins schmitamins,” you might say.
All you have to know is that the continuous deprivation of really tiny amounts of vitamins B1 (thiamine) and B3 (niacin) can give you nasty, potentially fatal diseases called beriberi and pellagra, respectively. These diseases have been very common throughout human history.1 And these vitamins are recommended only in the micrograms per day.2
If your dinner was a beach, the B vitamins would be a palmful of sand.
Apples vs. Twinkies
What about vitamin C, which has been urged upon you ever since that apple banged around in active competition with the Twinkie inside your lunchbox?
According to a 2004 study that tested thousands of Americans for their health ...
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