Vol. 4, Issue 4, Part A (2019)

Author(s): Ahmad Hussain Rasikh

Abstract: The importance of vitamins is now well recognized from requirement point of view on the basis of their chemical nature, physiological, functions, metabolism and symptoms of deficiency. Rickets, osteomalacia, night blindness, parakeratosis, infertility, haemorrhagic sweet clover disease, beriberi, polyneuritis, curled toe paralysis, scurvey and pellagra are some of the disease occurring as a result of different vitamin deficiencies.