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