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DISEASE CAUSED BY 
LACK OF VITAMIN 
e 4.2 Vitamins: Completed Exercise 
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SOURCE OF VITAMIN 
1. A 
Eggs, dairy food (except butter), liver, vegetable oil 
Night blindness 
2. B1 
Yeast (beer and bread), meat, cereals (except polished rice) 
Beri beri 
3. C 
Vegetables, fruit (especially citrus fruits, e.g. limes, oranges, lemons) 
Scurvy 
As you will see from the transcript below, the teacher is only casually consulting the list of vitamins and 
diseases. As a result, the listening passage is full of redundancies.
OK, right, now first of all for vitamin A you need eggs, dairy foods, well not all dairy foods, butter isn't on 
the list. What else? Umm, liver, and there's one more item. Ah yes, vegetable oil. And if you don't get 
enough Vitamin A in your diet, you could suffer from night blindness. I don't say you will, but you could. 
On to the next vitamin, which is-let me see-ah yes, vitamin B1. And you will find vitamin B1 in yeast, 
which we use to make bread and beer, in meat, and in cereals. Now of course you already know that 
polished rice has lost its vitamin B1. So just remember meat, yeast, and cereals, except polished rice. 
And if you don't get enough B1 to eat you could find yourselves suffering from scurvy. No sorry, I mean 
beri beri. 

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Now scurvy is caused by a lack of Vitamin C. And you can make sure that you have vitamin C in your diet 
by eating a lot of vegetables, vegetables of all sorts, and fruit. Now for the fruit, well, all of the fruits are 
important, but citrus fruits, that means limes, oranges, and lemons, are the richest in vitamin C, which as I 
just said, is important to include in your diet if you don't want to get scurvy. 
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