It is hard for us to imagine but because of lack of 1.5 milligrams of our weight we sometimes can go mad and become blind. But it can happen only if we lack 1.5 milligrams of some particular vitamin. It is a daily rate of most of the vitamins for our body. A lack of vitamin usually causes night-blindness, stunted growth for children, bad condition of skin, hair and nails, weak immunity. To put this in a nutshell we feel ill.

When the body suffers from a lack of riboflavin, the symptoms are angular stomatitis (corners of lips are crannied and irritated), the same happens to skin under nose, hand skin is irritated as well and nails are fragile. Your eyes are constantly watering. You feel tired and suffer from headaches and there is no appetite.

But the situation can be changed if one eats well and takes vitamin B2. Riboflavin sources are milk, liver and kidneys, yeast, cheese, leaf vegetables, like cabbage, fish and spinach, egg yolk, boiled buckwheat and porridge. Riboflavin foods are useful for everyone who feels that his immunity is not strong enough. Riboflavin supplements must be increased for little children and pregnant women.

And we should remember that good meal is significant for us every day. We should not apply to fast-food, but spend special time for eating in a quiet atmosphere. Usually riboflavin sources contain not only vitamin B2, but many other vitamins, including retinol and vitamin C, as well as iron for example. We should remember that our food should be various. Sea-food is very useful and helps to prevent cancer.

Vegetable and fruits contain the biggest number of vitamins and mega-vitamins, including riboflavin sources. Vegetarians are in a way right in denying meat, but it should not be applied to little children and ill people. From meat we get lots of useful elements and vitamins. Milk products and eggs are the best riboflavin sources and vitamins sources in general. And we surely should remember about limits. The most part of all vitamins cannot be stored in organism for long.

So, there is no need and reason to eat too much raspberry at a time for example. It will do only harm to you, as well as overeating in general. It is better to eat several times a day but have little meals, than have one huge meal. It will let your organism to fill up vitamin sources during the whole day.

So, a healthy way of life consists of several things. As it has been already said we need to eat regularly. We need to have a kind of timetable. Doctors say that we had better go to sleep and get up at the same time every day. We should not go to bed too late. As Coco Chanel once said, what so interesting should happen after midnight that I will sacrifice my sleep? Everything that is usually said or happens after midnight, you have already said and experienced. It is good to sleep no more and no less than seven or eight hour per day.

There is time when you work the most effectively and there is time when you relax with the greatest pleasure. And the former is in no way more important than the latter. Learn to enjoy your time and get more vitamins!

So the next time someone offers you some riboflavin, don't push it away. Go ahead and ask for seconds!