Around the world, more children (and their mothers) are surviving today than ever before, in part because they are receiving the care and assistance they need to grow and thrive. Here in America, the percentage of young children in “excellent or very good health” is 86.3 percent, and for teens that number is 82.8 percent.…

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Vitamins are organic molecules that are essential to metabolism in all living organisms. While these molecules serve essentially the same role in all forms of life, higher organisms have lost the ability to synthesize (make) many vitamins. Vitamins are found in the foods we eat, or in supplement form. A lack of proper amounts of…

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