Vitamins are taken from the food we eat everyday. These help to keep us healthy and fit to do our daily activities and each vitamin has its own role. These are just like the letters in the alphabet; each possesses a function which is necessary to make a bunch of letters into a word. Likewise, vitamins are also vital for your body's optimum performance. For your body to function like a well-oiled machine, you require a good number of vitamins to boost your system so you could perform your day to day tasks with ease. Here are a few vitamins that are vital to our health.

a) Vitamin A is great for your eyes or for a better vision. It allows you to see black and white and also to see at night. A deficiency of this vitamin can make it hard for a person to see in conditions with low light intensity. This is called night blindness. Vitamin A also helps maintain the health of your skin by decreasing the growth of bacteria on the skin's surface. You can get this from liver, carrots, pumpkin and spinach among others.

b) There are a lot of forms of Vitamin B including thiamine, niacin, riboflavin, folic acid, biotin and others. Get these from bananas, potatoes, chili peppers, turkey and tuna. These vitamins help prevent anemia and pancreatic cancer. Talk about good food and a healthy body right? Have a daily intake of these vitamins and you will also get good skin and muscles.

c) Vitamin C is our body's natural antioxidant, acting like a shield from illnesses. It is famous especially for its role against the common cold. It also helps your skin heal. Vitamin C keeps unfriendly visitors away from open wounds. So take your oranges, papayas, mangoes and strawberries and make a healthy vitamin C rich fruit salad. There's nothing better than eating good food rich in vitamins that help your immune system function at its best.

d) You want to have strong bones? Yes? Then take Vitamin D, the excellent answer to the "strong bones" question. People may say to take lots of calcium from milk to have strong bones, but you have to know that this is not enough. Calcium cannot be absorbed by the bones if there is a deficiency of vitamin D. Vitamin D even functions to enhance the human immune system. Natural sources of the D vitamin include fatty fishes like salmon and mackerel, mushrooms and egg.

e) Vitamin E is another body loving vitamin. This improves the immune system, also acts as an antioxidant, protects your body's complex proteins (i.e. DNA, enzymes, cell membranes) from damage and others. Eat your broccoli, asparagus, spinach and peanuts and you are ensured of your body getting a taste of vitamin E's body aiding properties.

f) Vitamin K is the body's blood clotting vitamin. It helps prevent blood loss from open wounds. Imagine having a deficiency in this vitamin and see your wounds bleed until your blood becomes deficient too.