2007-04-23 06:28:37 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
Water soluble vitamins, like Vitamin C, dissolve in water in your body. You cannot overdose on water soluable vitamins, because excess amounts are flushed out of your body when you urinate.
Fat soluble vitamins dissolve only in your bodies fat tissue, so you can take too many of these vitamins because they do not leave your body as quickly.
2007-04-23 06:32:09 · answer #1 · answered by Joey B 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Any excess water soluble vitamins are flushed out. Any excess fat soluble vitamins are stored, which is why you have to be careful about not exceeding the proper dose on these.
2007-04-23 06:33:23 · answer #2 · answered by kaliluna 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It does ought to do with the polarity of the molecule. whilst the supplements have a polar hydroxy team, the overwhelmingly vast majority of the molecule includes alkyl chains and alkyl jewelry. for this reason, the molecule is a lot greater soluble in fat, that are themselves alkyl, fatty acid chains certain to a glycerol molecule. As an earlier poster reported, like dissolves like.
2016-10-13 07:00:28 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
water soluble is like liquids and fat soluble is food
2007-04-23 06:31:35 · answer #4 · answered by Jeanette A 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋