Vitamins are specific organic compounds that are required in the diet to 1. aid in digestion of proteins. 2. provide fiber. 3. provide essential amino acids. 4. prevent deficiency diseases.

The correct answer is 4. prevent deficiency diseases.

Explanation:

Vitamins are important in the body and it helps in boosting our immune system, helping our wounds to heal fast. They are required in a small amount in the body for maintaining normal metabolism of the body.

Vitamins helps in preventing deficiency disease like vitamin deficiency anemia. Vitamin D deficiency can cause rickets, vitamin C deficiency can cause scurvy, deficiency of vitamin A can cause vision loss.  

Therefore a proper balanced diet should be taken which has all essential vitamins to prevent us from deficiency diseases.

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no, because those are both different running competitions. while distance runners train their legs and their lungs to run long amounts of time, the sprinters are training their legs and their lungs to give all they have in the little amount of area they need to cover. the brain also plays a huge part in all of this.

the brain is the only thing in your body that sends messages to your body telling you to run. if you are a long distance runner and you have the mind set of a sprinter, you will not get anywhere. if you have a long distance mind set and you have to run 200m in 20 seconds then you will not make it in time.