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Vitamin A

All About Vitamin A

Vitamin A is a group of unsaturated nutritional organic compounds that includes retinol, retinal, retinoic acid, and several provitamin A carotenoids (Most notably beta-carotene). -- Wikipedia.

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Cool, I thought vitamin A was because it is the most important vitamin. Now I know it was just the first discovered. So the B vitamins were the next discovered?

Vitamin A Health & Special Psychology

I was watching a BBC documentary that had scientific proof that over consumption of Vitamin A through pills at a high dosage over a long period of time can cause serious liver damage and cause osteoporosis in both men and women. Beware!

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More than just eyes and skin: Vitamin A affects the heart

Vitamin A is important for heart development in embryos, but whether it has a role in maintaining heart health is unclear. A new study finds that the heart is able to respond to vitamin A and the amount of vitamin A present has an effect. However, whether the effects are beneficial or harmful is still a mystery. Ref. Source 2l.

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Vitamin a and a high-fat diet increasing risk for obesity, diabetes

Vitamin A is an essential nutrient that the human body needs to function properly. But new research suggests that normal levels of vitamin A within a high-fat diet can negatively affect expression of liver genes associated with glucose and fat metabolism. Ref. Source 4w.