Shared Projects From Peers

September 24th-
Fruits-
J. Ruggiero
Apple
Apples are a tradition fruite especially used in pies. However they have many benifical effects for our health such as; arthritis, gout, cleansing toxins in our body and are good for weight loss. Apples also have good sources of Copper, Iron, Magnesium, Vitamin C, and Vitamin A just to name a few. Some people believe that you should not eat apple seeds because of the cyanide in them is toxic. Some apples have wax covering them, therefore it is better to buy organicly grown apples or eat ones you grow yourself.
http://www.juicingbook.com/fruits/apple
B. Comtois

9/13/07
Lemon
My Fruit is the lemon. It is tradtionly used for anemia, arthritis, blood, constipation, gout, indigestion, scurvy, skin problems, toxin elimination, and weight loss. A lemon can be a good source of bioflavanoids, vitamin C and potassium. When telling if a lemon is freash it should not have any green on it because that means that has a high acid content. You want a lemon that has a smooth skin, that means that it will have more juice in it. It is important that you know citrus fruits can take calcium from the body if you have too much of them. All of the citrus fruits give citric acid to the body and so it is good to exercise after having a citrus fruit or drink. It is always a good idea to leave the white membrain on the lemon when juicing because ut produces bioflavanoids that helps the body absorb and use vitamin C. The best fruit to use the lemon with is the apple. The three biggest vitamin in the lemon it vitamin C, A and B.
L Conway
Orange

The traditional medical uses of oranges are for Anemia, Blood, Constipation, Gout, Indigestion, Liver, Lungs, Scurvy, Skin Problems, Strengthening Blood Vessels, and Weight Loss. They are a good source of Calcium, Chlorine, Copper, Fluorine, Iron, Manganese, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium, Silicon Zinc, B-1, 2, & 6, Vitamin E, Vitamin K, Bioflavanoids, Biotin, Folic Acid, and Inositol. The freshness test for oranges is weight and good color. Because an orange is a citrus fruit it should not be take in excess because it can take calcium from the body. Always remove the skin of an orange before eating it. Orange juice should be drunk right after it is juiced to get all of the Vitamin C. The top three vitamins in oranges are Vitamin C, Thiamin , and Riboflavin.

September 11th 2007
Vitamins-
M. Waryas- Vitamin B-6, works as a coenzyme, a molecule that provides a transfer site for chemical reactions within your body, it helps convert tryptophan, the chemical in turkey that makes you sleepy, to niacin, which can be found in multiple foods including: meat, fish, eggs, milk, and whole grained foods.This vitamin promotes a healthy cardivascular, nervous, and immune systems, and supports healthy skin, hair and nails and a normal red- blood cell formation. It can be used as a possible anemia treatment, functions as a tranquilizer. It also causes a reduction of PMS symptoms and may reduce asthma symptoms and it increases serotonin to ease sleep. People who would benefit from taking B-6 vitamins include pregnant or breast-feeding women, substance abusers, estrogen or contraceptive user, or those with increased nutritional needs.This vitamin can be found naturally in many foods, including: avacados, bananas, chicken, ham, potatoes, salmon, shrimp, sunflower seeds, and many others. B-6 is available in liquid form, due to its fast absorption.Before taking B-6, you should consult your doctor if you have intestinal problem, liver disease, overactive thyroid, or sickle-cell disease. If you are over 55, a marginal deficincy of this vitamin is more likely to occur. If you are pregnant or breastfeeding, avoid large doses because it could cause dependency in the child. Some symptoms of deficiency include weakness, mental confusion, inablity to sleep, irratablity, anemia, or tongue discoloration. Signs of an overdose include include irreversible nerve damage, and excess use of the vitamin may lead to kidney stones. Stop and consult your doctor if depression occurs and you are on an oral contraceptive, or if you have been taking the vitamin for several months and begin to have severs sensory neuropathy. This vitamin interacts with many other substances. Some of these include: oral contraceptives reduce vitamin absorption rates, as do tobacco and alcohol and phenytoin.

J. Mayer- Vitamin B-1 (Thiamine)Thiamine is a very important vitamin because it helps you metabolize your fat, however, it is water soluble, which means that it disintegrates in water. After it is in the body, the water in your body makes it disappear in some parts, but not completely because the nutrients in Thiamine store the vitamin in your muscle tissues. It helps keep your heart healthy along with your digestive system and your nervous system. However, its not able to be stored in the body, minus your muscle tissues, so you have to take in the vitamin frequently to remain healthy.The vitamin, Thiamine can be found in bananas, pork, spinach, breads, yeast, and many more.If you have a Thiamine deficiency meaning that you cant take in and keep Thiamine, or that you just don't eat the proper foods for it, it results in having no nutrition. Or, if you are an alcoholic, the alcohol takes away the nutrition that some of your foods, and can lead to death or wasting.

E. Comtois- Vitamin B3, or Niacin, is a vitamin that is like other B vitamins it creates enzymes that are a key to changing food into energy, combining hormones, repair genetic material, and keeps the nervous system functioning. It is needed for 50 body processes. You can get vitamin B3 from things like, Beef liver, Brewer’s yeast, the white meat of a chicken, dried beans and peas, fortified cereals, halibut, peanut butter, peanuts, pork, potatoes, salmon, soybeans, swordfish, tuna and turkey. This vitamin can help with treating pellagra, can decreases cholesterol, if taken in large doses can dilate blood vessels, it helps handle ear ringing and dizziness, its great for genetic material repair, there can be a reduction in heart attacks, it calms depression and migraine headaches, and possible poor digestion could be improved. Some of the benefits of Vitamin B3 are, it can help people with poor food intake by keeping them healthy, pregnant woman or woman that are breast feeding can help there child by giving them the right amount of vitamins, with substance abusers it can help improve their mental awareness, people that are severe burn or injury patients it can help heal their wounds, infants with disorders that a don't turn there food into energy, and people that have had heart problems it can help also. Vitamin B3 is offered as a liquid or tablet but it is more readily available in liquid due to high bio-availability and it is better due to faster absorption. When digesting this vitamin you should talk to your doctor if you have, diabetes, gout, gallbladder or liver disease , internal bleeding, and glaucoma because it can make you worse if taken to much or to little. There are some deficiencies with taking this vitamin may have dermatitis on you hand and face, lose of appetite, a sore mouth, diarrhea, and depression. If you have had an overdose of this vitamin, you may have body flush, nausea, diarrhea, weakness, light headiness, headache, fainting, high blood sugar, high uric acid, and heart- rhythm disturbance. From this vitamin you can have many different side effects. There is abdominal pain, headache, diarrhea, darkened urine, faintness, feeling hot, and dry skin. Last but not least there can be interaction that might not be good with this vitamin. Most of these interactions happen with medications that you are taking. For example, Antibiotics, Tetracycline, Aspirin, Blood Pressure Medications, Alpha-blockers, Cholesterol-lowering Medications, Diabetes Medications, and Nicotine Patches. The other things that it can interact with are, Anti-diabetics it can lead to a reduction in the anti-diabetic effect, the beta-adrenergic blockers can cause incredibly low blood pressures, tobacco can lead to a reduction in niacin effect, and alcohol can cause an incredible reduction in blood pressure.

L. Conway- Vitamin B-5 also known as Pantothenic Acid is used by the body to help take carbohydrates, protein, and fat and turn them into energy. There are many benefits of this vitamin, it helps with natural growth, it helps take the food that you eat and turn it into energy, and it can help relieve stress and fatigue. There is a large list of common foods that have Pantothenic Acid in them, these foods include Avocados, Bananas, Blue cheese, Broccoli, Chicken, Collard greens, Eggs, Lentils, Liver, Lobster, Meats, Milk, Oranges, Peanut butter, Peanuts, Peas, Soybeans, Sunflower seeds, Wheat germ, and Whole-grain products. Vitamin B-5 can be taken in different forms, but liquid is the best because your body absorbs it the fastest.There are some minor downfalls to taking Vitamin B-5. If you have Hemophilia(when your blood does not clot) you should consult a doctor before taken extra Vitamin B-5. The only affect of taking too much Vitamin B-5 is diarrhea, if this occurs you should reduce the amount of Vitamin B-5 that you are taking and see a doctor. Vitamin B-5 can limit the effect of the medicine Levodopa. Also its own effects are limited if it is used by a person who uses tobacco products. Vitamin B-5 is a good thing to take to improve your overall health.

A. Rathbun- Folic Acid (vitamin B-9) is also known as folate, and folacin; it's chemical name is pteroyigulamic. this is a very important vitamin. This vitamin is needed to do many things in the body. The vitamin can be made in the body and then stored in the liver.Vitamin B-9 is needed in cell growth and DNA synthesis. Vitamin B-9 is also very important in the formation of red blood cells, amino acids and last but not least energy productions. Along with those it is absolutly vital for creating heme, which is the iron substance in hemoglobin, essentail for oxygen transport. Vitamin B-9 works as a coenzyme in RNA and DNA synthesis. It is also good for digestion and for your nervous system. The vitamin also works to better your mental and emotional health. So it can be used as a treatment for depression and anxiety.Not having enough folic acid (vitamin B-9) can cause diarrhea, heartburn and constipation. For an unborn baby being deficient in the vitamin can be dangerous. It increases the risk that the baby might be born with some serious defects to its nervous system, like spina bifidia. In adults and teens when there is a deficincy of the vitamin you can sufer from fatigue, acne, sore tongue, and cracking at the corner of your mouth. Having a long term deficincy may cause anemia and cancer of the bowl and/or cervix.The recommended daily dosage of vitamin B-9 is 400 micrograms. People on meds for epilepsy need to e careful with large amounts of the vitamin because it can change the functions of those medications. But having to much of the vitamin can cover up a vitamin B-12 deficincy. Folic acid is most effective when it is taken with other B vitamins like, B-12, B-6, and vitamin C. Fresh greens like broccli, and spinich contain vitamin B-9; it is also found in fruits and starchy veggies, whole grains, and beans

J. Kearney- Vitamin D also known as Cholecalcifero plays an enormous role in the development of bone growth, Vitamins D is used to absorb calcium and phosphorus from the body to create this bone. In a section from a website it states that Vitamin D can be found in different sources: “Great sources of this supplement include fortified milk, oily fish, liver, and eggs.”(http://www.vitamins-nutrition.org//vitamins-guide/vitamin-d-cholecalciferol.html) There are many benefits that Vitamin D can give to the body by helping prevent substance abusers, nutritional intake, and extended stress. Vitamin D can also help people that do not receive enough sunshine by giving them the needed nutrients, vegetarians that don’t receive enough Vitamin D, and patients that suffer from cystic fibrosis patients. Vitamin D can be found in many different sources, in a section from a website of health listed them: cod-liver oil, egg substitutes, halibut-liver oil, herring, mackerel, salmon, sardines, sunlight, tuna, and Vitamin-D-fortified milk. (http://www.vitamins-nutrition.org//vitamins-guide/vitamin-d-cholecalciferol.html) There are many different ways that Vitamin D can be taken or used, but the best way that it can be obtained is through its liquid state. Tablets for Vitamin D can also be taken to help get the needed amount. When taking Vitamin D you should be cautious and consult your doctor and from a statement from a health website it pronounced that:“Consult your doctor if you have:have planned pregnancy while taking vitamin D, epilepsy, heart or blood-vessel disease, kidney, liver or pancreatic disease, chronic diarrhea, intestinal problems, sarcoidosis and if you are over 55:higher potential for adverse reactions and side effects.”(http://www.vitamins-nutrition.org/vitamins-guide/vitamin-d-cholecalciferol.html)There are some symptoms of deficiency that could occur would be weakness in the muscles, bone pain tenderness, osteoporosis, arthritis, cancer and in children rickets.(http://www.vitamins-nutrition.org/vitamins-guide/vitamin-d-cholecalciferol.html) There are many different signs of an overdose of Vitamin D, in a segment of a health cite described these signs:“high blood pressure, Irregular heartbeat, nausea, weight loss, seizures, abdominal pain, appetite loss, mental-and physical-growth retardation, premature hardening of arteriesKidney damage.” (http://www.vitamins-nutrition.org/vitamins-guide/vitamin-d-cholecalciferol.html)There are many different side effects that are caused by Vitamin D but these are found to be the most important:The loss of appetite, dry mouth, nausea or vomiting, increased thirst, mental confusion, and headaches. If any of these systems should occur discuss with your doctor straight away.Vitamin D has different sorts of interactions such as:“Anticonvulsants: Vitamin efficacy may be reduced.Barbiturates: Vitamin efficacy may be reduced.Calcitonin: Calcitonin effect reduced when treating hypercalcemia.Calcium (high doses): Risk of hypercalcemia increased. Cholestyramine: Vitamin absorption reduced.Colestipol: Vitamin absorption reduced.Cortisone: Vitamin absorption reduced.Digitalis preparations: Heartbeat irregularities increased.Diuretics, thiazide: Hypercalcemia risk increased.Hydration: Vitamin efficacy may be reduced.Mineral oil: Absorption of vitamin D increased.Phosphorus- containing medicines: Risk increased of too much phosphorus in blood.Primidone : Vitamin efficacy may be reduced.Vitamin-D derivatives: Increased potential for toxicity due to additive effects.Alcohol: Depletes storage of vitamin D in liver”(http://www.vitamins-nutrition.org//vitamins-guide/vitamin-d-cholecalciferol.html)These are very important interactions that Vitamin D can cause and should be taken seriously and looked into every few months

Z. Whitcomb- For the first project I had to research vitamin H and what it dose for the body. Vitamin H is received from certain intestinal bacteria, Vitamin H is also known as Biotin. This particular Vitamin is used for boosting metabolism. protects amino acids and set up for the building of protein. this particular virtaman is used for cell growth http://www.umm.edu/altmed/articles/vitamin-h-000342.htm