Vitamin F: its importance, role and influence on the body
The effect of this vitamin on the human body is quite wide. Vitamin is able to help absorb fat, remove excess cholesterol. It has a positive effect on the organs of reproduction, normalizes the exchange of fats in the skin. It is impossible to do without this vitamin in the treatment of atherosclerosis. It is also actively used in diseases of skin tissues.
Vitamin F compounds help to strengthen the immune forces, heal wounds. They will help relieve allergies or prevent it altogether. Under the influence of this vitamin, spermatozoa develop favorably.
This vitamin helps to reduce the development of inflammation in the human body. It is able to relieve pain, swelling, improve blood flow.
Vitamin "F" is able to provide nutrition for all tissues in the body and stimulate the metabolism of fats, so it is important for the prevention of diseases that affect the musculoskeletal system of the body. He is able to prevent the development of rheumatoid lesions and osteochondrosis. This vitamin activates the burning of saturated fats, resulting in a person losing weight. It helps the glands work, related to internal secretion. It nourishes the hair and skin. That's why the vitamin was called "vitamin beauty."
The compounds of this vitamin are used in cosmetic production.
When this vitamin enters the body, the risk of atherosclerotic plaques on the vessels decreases, because it lowers cholesterol. It also helps to thin the blood and reduce blood pressure. Vitamin is able to prevent the development of free radicals.
Vitamin F: sources of this element, foods containing a vitamin
The main sources of these acids are vegetable oils of all kinds. They are found in olive, sunflower, soybean, linen, corn, nuts and safflower oils. There are a lot of them in animal fats.
It must be said that today one more kind of vegetable oil has been undeservedly forgotten - about the redhead oil. This oil was quite popular among our compatriots at the beginning of the last century. It was available to virtually everyone, whether rich or poor. There are suggestions that it was this kind of oil that helped our great-grandmothers to preserve youth, beauty and health longer, protecting them from the development of many ailments that are so often met today. This and heart attacks, and strokes, and other diseases of the heart, as well as blood vessels.
Over time, in our country increased the area of cultivation of sunflowers, from which it is much easier and cheaper to expel the oil, so the red-oil was completely ousted from everyday life, despite the fact that it has much more pronounced therapeutic properties.
It is gratifying that they remembered it today and began to produce it again. It is used in cooking, as well as in pharmacology and cosmetic production. Fatty acids in this oil, both unsaturated and saturated, are in full balance, with Omega 3 acids and also 6 in it much more than in other oils of vegetable origin.
Vitamin "F" contains fish (mackerel, salmon, herring), fish oil, currants (black), nuts (almonds, walnuts, peanuts), oat flakes, wheat germ, corn. As for the herbs, this vitamin is abundant in the evening primrose, the medicinal borage, the hillside solyanka, which is able to lower the cholesterol level in our blood.
Vitamin F can be destroyed by exposure to oxygen, heat, and light. In this case, it can acquire even harmful properties that can generate free radicals and toxins.
The excess of vitamin " F" and its lack
Do not neglect your health and miss the symptoms of vitamin F deficiency, because the consequence of this inattention can be the development of serious ailments, premature aging. If the body does not have enough of this compound, then allergies, inflammations often occur, the skin loses a lot of moisture, the sebaceous glands turn out to be clogged, the defense weakens. Therefore, when a vitamin deficiency develops dermatitis, eczema, there are pustular rashes. Show themselves and other diseases that affect the skin, which becomes difficult to cure.
If there is a lack of this connection, the liver suffers, and hence the entire body, because it ceases to remove toxins. Often an infection begins to enter the body. Heart disease develops.
Small children of the first year of life often suffer from hypovitaminosis of this vitamin, because it is not enough supplied with food. And if the baby has a difficult intestinal absorption, then vitamins in general, you can say, do not enter his body. Consequently, children grow poorly, do not add to the mass, the skin often begins to peel off, its upper layers thicken. Often there is diarrhea, urination is delayed, despite the fact that children are more often asked to drink.
Adults with a lack of vitamin F compounds risk getting a heart attack or stroke. They have hypertension due to the defeat of large vessels.
Cases in which an overabundance of vitamin F is observed is rare. It has no toxic properties, it is completely safe. Even a long intake of vitamin in the body still does not have any side effects.
However, to consume this vitamin compound is not too much, otherwise the blood will become very liquid, which can lead to bleeding. Body weight can also go up. When ingesting large doses of this vitamin, heartburn may occur. Also, the stomach can get sick, a rash can appear on the skin. When you stop taking a vitamin remedy, the symptoms disappear.
To protect the vitamin F from disintegration, it is recommended to take it with zinc and antioxidants. Vitamin promotes the absorption of vitamins D, E, B and A. Together with vitamin D, it strengthens bone tissue.
Vitamin F is destroyed by heating. Do not flatter yourself that in vegetable oil when frying, it remains unchanged. You can get it from oil only when refueling salads. In an open bottle of oil, which stands in the light, too, does not remain vitamin F, so the bottles with oil should be kept in the cold and dark places.