All About Antioxidants and Vitamins

Most current medical textbooks still treat vitamins, including vitamin C and Vitamin E, in the conventional manner. This is appropriate for the large B group of vitamins ( B1 ,B2., B6 and B12, niacin, pantothenic acid, folic acid and lipoic acid) and for vitamins A, D and K. All these, plus vitamin C, are substances necessary in very small quantities for the maintenance of health. If these small quantities are not available, various deficiency diseases occur. Vitamin C deficiency causes scurvy a bleeding disorder; vitamin A deficiency causes serious eye and other problems; vitamin D deficiency causes bone softening rickets or osteomalacia  and so on.