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AN ESSENTIAL ROLE • The human body is composed of a series of complex chemical reactions. These chemical reactions occur with the help of enzymes, and the primary function of vitamins is to help our bodies create those enzymes, and help the enzymes complete their jobs. When the chemical reactions occur, the vitamins get used up and so the body needs more vitamins on a daily basis. Without vitamins, chemical reactions that depend on those vitamins come to a stop and the result can be catastrophic. Vitamins cannot be manufactured inside the human body and must come from food.

• Plants manufacture all of the vitamins humans need except for vitamins D, B12, and (to a large extent) vitamin A. Vitamins help a plant with the process of photosynthesis. The more photosynthesis a plant has going on, the higher the level of vitamins will be contained in that plant. This is why light colored vegetables like iceberg lettuce have lower levels of vitamins than dark-colored vegetables like kale and spinach.

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VITAMIN A • Vitamin A is found in animal products such as organ meat, full fat milk, butter, and cod liver oil. It’s also present in some vegetables such as dark leafy greens and foods rich in beta carotene such as carrots, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, broccoli, and cantaloupe. But the amount of vitamin A in plants is tiny compared to the amount in animal matter.

• Vitamin A is stored in the liver, so the human body can usually survive up to a year without taking in any vitamin A at all. But after that, a person who is not receiving any vitamin A will first experience night blindness and then go blind entirely. This problem is particularly prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

The World Health Organization estimates that between 500,000 and a million children go blind every year, and up to 90% of those children die of complications related to their vitamin deficiency.

• Today, over 70 countries have programs to deliver vitamin A supplementation to its populations in order to reduce child mortality and blindness.

VITAMIN B • Pregnant women need to get enough B9 (also called folic acid) or their child runs the risk of being born with neurological damage. The amount of B9 that is needed each day during pregnancy is equal to about the weight of 4 grains of salt. Beans, lentils, and spinach are high in vitamin B9.

• The amount of vitamin B12 needed each day is even less than that, equivalent to 1/67th of a single grain of salt. But without that tiny amount, the result is memory loss, depression, nerve damage, and anemia.

Vitamin B12 is primarily present in animal-based foods such as meat and eggs, which makes strict vegans susceptible to deficiency.

VITAMIN C • Vitamin C is necessary for the production of collagen. Collagen is the protein that forms connective tissues that hold our bodies together. The word collagen comes from the Greek word for glue. Without collagen, the body breaks down, an illness called scurvy.

• Between the time Columbus landed in the New World in 1492 and the time steam engines made ocean travel speedy in the mid-1800s, it’s estimated that over 2 million sailors died of scurvy. On any given voyage, about half of the sailors would die of scurvy, which was more than died of shipwreck, combat, storms, and diseases combined.

• James Lind was a Scottish doctor who helped discover the connection between vitamin C and the prevention of scurvy. In 1747 he took 12 sailors who were all suffering from scurvy and divided them into six pairs.

All the men ate the same food and lived in the same quarters but he gave each pair a different remedy to try to cure them. The remedies were widely varied and included such things as garlic, seawater, and cream of tartar. But the two sailors whose remedy included citrus fruit recovered from their scurvy so quickly that they were able to assist the doctor in his experiments. Lind largely failed to recognize the significance of this discovery and scurvy continued to plague sailors for many decades to come.

VITAMIN D • Vitamin D is not naturally available in very many foods. The best sources are fatty fish such as tuna, salmon, mackerel, and cod liver oil. However, the body is able to synthesize its own vitamin D through exposure to ultraviolet light. When you take a vitamin D pill, the contents of that pill may have originated with lanolin from sheep’s wool.

TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING • Many people feel that if a little bit is good, then more must be better, but that is not always the case. The healthiest and safest doses of vitamins are the ones that appear naturally in food. Taking too much vitamin D on a regular basis can eventually cause calcium deposits in places where calcium deposits don’t belong, such as your arteries or kidneys. Excess vitamin D can also interfere with blood clotting. Too much vitamin A can cause liver damage, birth defects, and death in extreme cases. Too much vitamin C can cause kidney stones.

TOO LITTLE OF A GOOD THING • In World War II the Nazis cut off all supplies headed for Holland. Famine set in quickly. About 22,000 people died of starvation and another quarter of a million were made ill. The average weight loss among the population was about 20% of body weight. Nine months after the famine ended, the birth rate dropped by 50%.

• After the war ended, researchers wanted to find out how that period of starvation affected the citizens who survived it. They were not surprised to find that children who had been in the womb when their mothers experienced starvation had increased risk of physical and mental health problems as they grew into adults.

They suffered from higher rates of depression, cardiovascular problems, and type 2 diabetes. But researchers were very surprised to find that these negative effects extended not only to the children but also to the grandchildren of the people who had been involved. The grandchildren of the mothers who had experienced starvation also grew up to have higher than normal levels of health problems, all due to famine conditions suffered by their grandparents.

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Featuring Local Celebrities, Inspirational Stories, and Local Businesses The Darby Pledge - by Chris Yager May 10th was the third anniversary of my attempt to take my own life. For many, that sentence made you feel extremely uncomfortable. Suicide is a taboo subject in our society. For most people, it is not a topic that should be discussed or admitted to.

There have been a slew of suicides in this community just in the last several weeks. I think people now acknowledge we have a suicide problem in this state. However, there appears to be a continued need to educate people on why it happens Any special events in your future? and what can be done to prevent it. It is obvious we need We have ladies clothing for Prom, to have some very tough and difficult conversations on the topic.

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I got out of the truck and saw a huge pine tree in front of me with no snow underneath. I sat down and settled into the pine needles under that tree.

Right away, I put the gun in my mouth so I’d get used to the feel of my lips clamped down on cold steel. Then the thoughts start going through your head. Why am I here?

How did this happen? Is this really what I want to do?

I sat there wanting to do it but not mustering the courage to be able to. At one point I fired a round from the gun to remember the amount of tension needed to pull the trigger.

A lot of thoughts went through my head about my family, my son, and my friends. I thought about how I had disappointed them and let them down. I didn’t care about myself at the point. I didn’t want to be a burden or a problem for anyone else.

I sat there for a total of two hours. The sun made its way towards the horizon and the temperature started to drop. I decided I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t do it to my son or to my family. I had to find a way to press on.

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After just a few minutes, a sheriff’s deputy looking for me saw me and turned around. I pulled over and waited for him. I asked for help. He was my ride off the mountain top.

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The staff at the hospital was amazing. I was placed on medications which very effectively improved my mood and condition. I had an outpouring of support from family and friends who were concerned. I knew I had made the right decision to not go through with the suicide attempt.

Not everyone is so lucky. In the few months after my attempt, I sat through funerals of two other men who had killed themselves. Sitting through those and seeing the anguish FLOORING • LIGHTING and hurt caused to the loved one’s left behind had a profound BATH SUITE ACCESORIES impact on me.

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As a society we need to do a better job of identifying and helping those who are struggling with life. We need to be less afraid of seeking help, whether it be through counseling, medications, or both.

At the same token, we cannot rely solely on a magic pill to cure someone. Doctor’s must do a better job of making patients aware of the dangerous side effects of some anti-depressants. When appropriate, lifestyle changes must be given more importance in improving one’s mental health.

According to the National Institute on Mental Health, one in five adults experience a mental health illness each year.

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By Sam Mazzotta Creating a Turtle Habitat --DEAR PAW’S CORNER: I saw a news story about a man who built a miniature “Jurassic Park” landscape for his pet tortoise to play in. I have a little box turtle named “Darlene” that I got for my birthday, and I’m wondering, can I make something like that for my turtle? -- Sarah J., via email

SUPPLEMENTS & SYNTHETICS • Pres. Abraham Lincoln created the United States Bureau of Agriculture which contained within itself the Division of Chemistry. The Division of Chemistry eventually evolved into the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA. At the time it was instigated, the Division of Chemistry had exactly one employee who was in charge of things like finding out what vendors were diluting their milk with water, or adding ground up lice to brown sugar, since ground up lice looks just like brown sugar.

• It wasn’t until the year 1906 that the Pure Food and Drug Act was passed by Congress, the nation’s first federal law concerning food and drugs.

The law was strengthened and bolstered in 1938, closing many loopholes and putting the burden upon the manufacturers to prove their products were safe and effective.

• Today, the FDA regulates things such as food, cosmetics, tobacco products, medical devices, veterinarian supplies, pharmaceuticals, and even blood transfusions. However, the FDA is not responsible for testing or approving nutritional supplements. If a particular supplement claims that it will help your arthritis, the FDA is not responsible for testing that hypothesis or for making sure the supplement doesn’t have any side effects. Manufacturers are not required to prove that their product is safe or effective before releasing it on the market. There is little the FDA can do about that.

• The only time the FDA has been successful in pulling a dangerous supplement off the shelves was when it outlawed ephedra, a stimulant that caused over 100 deaths.

• Today there are over 85,000 supplements and vitamins products available for sale in America.

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DEAR SARAH: Turtle and tortoise owners can get pretty creative with their pets’ enclosures, and it can be fun to do. To make it fun for turtles and tortoises too, any enclosure has two important requirements: It needs to meet their basic needs, and it must be safe for them.

If you live in a climate that is not native to your turtle’s species, you’ll need to have an indoor and an outdoor enclosure. The indoor one should have the most ideal climate possible for your turtle, with steady temperature and proper humidity, a couple of places in which to hide, and a sunny corner (or a heat lamp) where she can go to warm up if necessary.

An outdoor enclosure gives your turtle a place to roam on warm, sunny days. It can and should be bigger than Darlene’s indoor enclosure, but ideally should be covered with mesh or wire to prevent predators from getting in. You’ll also need to build walls around the enclosure so Darlene can’t see out. It should have some nice flat rocks to climb up on, a shallow pool of water to rest in, a few shady spots and plenty of places to burrow in and hide.

Always have fresh drinking water available and give Darlene things to snack on, like fresh greens, grasses and a little bit of fruit.

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Amazing Animals FROGS • “Amphibian” comes from the Greek words meaning “two lives” since the frog can live both in the water and on the land.

• Frogs always croak, right? Wrong. The European tree frog sounds like a quacking duck. Another kind of frog sounds like a cat meowing.

• Frogs have no ribs.

• A frog closes its eyes by pulling the eyeballs deeper into the sockets, which serves to close the eyelids.

• A frog’s tongue is attached to the front of its mouth to give a longer reach.

• Do frogs have teeth? Just two tiny teeth in the upper jaw, which keep prey from getting away.

• A frog does not need to drink water because it absorbs water through its skin.

• A frog’s thigh, shin, and foot are of nearly equal length, to make jumping easier.

• A bullfrog with a six-inch (15 cm) body can leap ten times its own body length.

• Tadpoles are generally born being one sex or the other, but environmental influences can change the frog’s sex. If food is scarce or the temperature is not right, the transformation of female tadpoles into male frogs keeps the population down until conditions improve in the pond.

• Some frogs have lived for 20 years. One toad lived 36 years.

• If you pick up a frog while you have insect repellent on your hands, the frog will absorb it through the skin and become very sick.

• Handling a toad does not cause warts.

• Frogs don’t always lay their eggs in ponds: • The Malaysian hill frog lives high in the mountains where there are few ponds, so it lays its eggs in damp moss that hangs from trees. The tadpoles develop into frogs there.

• One kind of poison dart frog lays eggs on moist vegetation, and then watches over the eggs until the tadpoles hatch. Then the young crawl up on the backs of either parent and are literally glued in place by a mucous secretion. They are attached there for more than a week, until the parent can find a pool to release them. The water loosens the mucous bond, and the young swim free.

• Bullfrogs can lay 20,000 eggs at a time. On the other hand, some kinds of dart-poison frogs will lay a single tiny egg in each of the miniature “ponds” that forms when rainwater collects in the base of a leaf. The mother frog will also lay a number of unfertilized eggs next to the fertilized egg so the tadpole will have something to eat when it hatches. • The eggs of the horned marsupial frog are placed on the mother’s back, where a pouch of skin grows around them to protect them. Tadpoles of the frog hatch and develop in that pouch, completing their development into frogs without ever seeing water.

• The male midwife toad will wrap the long sticky strands of eggs around his legs, hopping around with them until they are ready to hatch. Then he deposits them in the water.

• The eggs of the leopard frog are white on one side and black on the other. The white part contains the genetic material; the black part contains a barrier to ultraviolet light. When exposed to light, the egg rotates its black side up, blocking the UV radiation and absorbing heat that helps with incubation.

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SUPPLEMENTS & SYNTHETICS (cont’d) • In a study done in the year 2013, Canadian researchers tested the ingredients in 44 different supplements and vitamins. One-third of the products did not contain any amount of the substances listed on their labels whatsoever. Many of the products were nothing more than powdered rice.

• The majority of the world’s supply of synthetic vitamins comes from China, which exports about 200,000 tons of vitamins per year.

• Synthetic vitamin A comes from acetone and formaldehyde. Synthetic niacin (vitamin B3) is made using a synthetic fiber that is also used in carpets and conveyor belts. Synthetic thiamine (vitamin B1) comes from coal tar. All synthetic vitamins are chemically identical to natural vitamins available in food, but natural vitamins in food come in a complete package that also offers other beneficial compounds.

• Associations such as the American Cancer Association, the American Heart Association, and the American Diabetes Association recommend that healthy people without nutritional deficiencies who eat a balanced diet avoid taking any multivitamins at all. It’s not because the vitamins are harmful, it’s just that they are unnecessary. However, pregnant women should take extra doses of folic acid, elderly women should take a daily dose of calcium, and vegans should supplement their diet with vitamin B12.

• A study published in the year 2012 which followed 15,000 middle-aged doctors found that none of the doctors showed any improvement in their risk of cancer when they took high doses of vitamin C, E, and beta-carotene. High doses of vitamins also had no effect whatsoever on their cognitive functions or their risk of heart attack.

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