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