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How the Vitamins Got Their Names



The list of vitamins can be kind of confusing, what with all those B vitamins and a random K thrown in. But every name has its story.

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Sources:
https://books.google.com/books?id=1CMHiWum0Y4C
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3593520/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2236198/

The Birth of Vitamin A


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23183299
http://www.clinchem.org/content/43/4/680.long
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/natural/983.html