| Vitamin A is required for night vision | | | | also lost from the bone. |
| and maintenance of body linings and | | | | osteoporosis may be a problem.Vitamin E |
| skin. Because of its antioxidant | | | | has earned itself a reputation - from |
| properties, it assists the immune | | | | spicing up your sex life to banning |
| system, and is good to protect against | | | | wrinkles and old age.A powerful |
| cancer formation and other diseases. It | | | | antioxidant, Vitamin E is protects body |
| also helps the digestive and urinary | | | | cells from oxidation, and neutralizes |
| tract as well as assisting your sense of | | | | unstable free radicals, which can cause |
| taste. Many scientific studies suggested | | | | damage. Its antioxidant capability is a |
| that it helps slow aging.A deficiency of | | | | great help in preventing degenerative |
| vitamin A may cause eye problems with | | | | diseases - such as heart disease, |
| dryness of the cornea and conjunctiva | | | | strokes, arthritis, senility, diabetes |
| and night blindness. A warning of too | | | | and cancer.Shortage of Vitamin E is not |
| little vitamin A in the body are dry | | | | common, and the symptoms not very clear |
| itchy eyes that tire easily. If the | | | | cut, but they may include inflamed |
| vitamin A deficiency is severe, the | | | | varicose veins, fatigue, premature |
| cornea can ulcerate and leading to | | | | aging, wounds healing slowly and |
| permanent blindness.A vitamin A | | | | sub-fertility.Vitamin K is used in the |
| deficiency may also lead to dry skin and | | | | body to control blood clotting and is |
| hair, especially if protein is also | | | | essential for synthesizing the liver |
| lacking.Vitamin D (calciferol) can | | | | protein that controls the clotting.A |
| rightly be called the sunshine vitamin, | | | | deficiency of this vitamin may manifest |
| since the body can manufacture this | | | | itself in nosebleeds, internal |
| nutrient from sunshine on your skin | | | | hemorrhaging. In newborn babies, lack of |
| using cholesterol from your body to do | | | | vitamin K results in hemorrhagic |
| so.Vitamin D helps with increasing the | | | | disease, as well as postoperative |
| absorption of calcium, promotes strong | | | | bleeding and hematuria.As you can see |
| teeth and generally assists in bone | | | | the above vitamins are very important |
| growth and their integrity.A lack of | | | | for your body and any deficiency must by |
| vitamin D can lead to softening of the | | | | a adjusted. But there is a problem here. |
| bone and muscle twitching and | | | | Vitamins A, D, E and K are classified as |
| convulsions. In children it causes | | | | a fat-soluble vitamins and they are not |
| rickets. In adults, the shortage causes | | | | excreted as readily as water soluble |
| osteomalacia - loss of minerals from the | | | | vitamins (such as the B vitamins and |
| bones. In older people, when protein is | | | | vitamin C). |