Micronutrient Monday: Vitamin B3 (Niacin)
Vitamin B3 is also commonly known as niacin. It is another one of the eight water-soluble B vitamins that our bodies need to function at their best. Vitamin B9 also comes in different structures including nicotinic acid, nicotinamide or niacinamide. You can learn more...
Micronutrient Monday: Vitamin B9 (Folate)
Vitamin B9 is also known as folate. It is one of eight water-soluble vitamins that are part of our diet. Although there are 8 B vitamins, they are not numbered 1 to 8.
Addressing Anemia with Your Diet
You probably know that anemia is a condition where you do not have enough healthy red blood cells to move oxygen around your body. But I bet you did not know that there are more than 5 different types of anemia. Additionally, anemia itself is not a disease but rather...
Brain-Boosting Foods
Our brains are the command centre of our bodies. They play a role in essentially everything we do from simple movements to storing memories and our personalities. This is why it is so important to keep our brains working at their best, and our diets can play a role in that!
Micronutrient Monday: Vitamin B1
Vitamin B1, commonly known as thiamin, was the first of six B vitamins to be discovered. Like all other B vitamins, thiamin is a water-soluble vitamin that is not stored in the body in large amounts.
Micronutrient Monday: Vitamin B12
Vitamin B12 is one of eight B vitamins. B12 is often cobalamin due to the cobalt found at the centre of the vitamin’s structure, and helps prevent the development of anemia.
Micronutrient Monday: Vitamin B2
Vitamin B2 isn’t nearly as popular or trendy as vitamin C, but it’s still an important micronutrients for keeping us healthy. Often known as riboflavin, vitamin B2 is a water-soluble naturally found in some foods, added to some food products, and...
Micronutrient Monday: Vitamin B6
Vitamin B6 (also known as pyridoxine) is one of eight B vitamins. Our bodies are not able to produce vitamin B6, so we need to get this vitamin from our foods and supplements.
Unlike vitamins D and E, vitamin B6 (and all the other B vitamins) is water-soluble. This means that excess amounts of the vitamin are not stored in the body, but rather lost in urine.