Vitamin D helps the body absorb and utilize calcium and is essential for the development of bones and teeth. It is in this capacity that vitamin D helps prevent two calcium-defieciency diseases: osteoprosis and rickets. Indirectly vitamin D promotes nerve function protects against muscle weakness fosters normal muscle contractions and helps and helps regulate the heartbeat. The vitamin also enhances immune-system function by prompting the thymus glad to create immune-system cells which in turn destroy bacteria viruses and other illness-causing microbes.
- ISBN10 0751331961
- ISBN13 9780751331967
- Publish Date 3 May 2001
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 October 2004
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Dorling Kindersley Ltd
- Imprint DK
- Format Paperback
- Pages 64
- Language English