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What Is Vitamin A Used For
Health Encyclopedia: Vitamin A
Vitamin A is a fat-soluble vitamin.
Alternative Names
Retinol; Carotenoids
Function
Vitamin A helps form and maintain healthy teeth, skeletal and soft tissue, mucous membranes, and skin. It is also known as retinol because it produces the pigments in the
Vitamin A promotes good vision, especially in low light. It may also be need for reproduction and breast feeding.
Retinol is an active type of vitamin A. It is found in animal liver,...
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Expert & Community Posts
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Health Guide
Vitamin A
Retinol; Carotenoids Food Sources Vitamin A comes from animal sources, such as eggs, meat, milk, cheese, cream, liver, kidney, cod, and halibut fish oil. However,... Read more »Vitamin A
Retinol; Carotenoids Side Effects If you don't get enough vitamin A, you are more susceptible to infectious diseases and vision problems. If you get too... Read more »Vitamins: Introduction
Vitamins do not share a common chemistry, but they do share certain characteristics. They are all organic nutrients that are necessary in small amounts for normal metabolism and good... Read more »Vitamins: Carotenoids
...proving to be of great interest. As with some, but not all, carotenoids, beta carotene is known as a provitamin A because it converts to the vitamin in the body.They are categorized as either... Read more »Vitamin A
...Saunders; 2001:297 Institute of Medicine. Food and Nutrition Board. Dietary Reference Intakes for Vitamin A, Vitamin K, Arsenic, Boron, Chromium, Copper, Iodine, Iron, Manganese, Molybdenum,... Read more »Images
Vitamin K- Learn about sources of Vitamin K... Read more »
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