Vitamins and Your Health: Vitamin A Deficiency
Vitamin A deficiency can have a substancial impact on your health.
Vitamin deficiencies can have a major impact on your health.
Vitamin A deficiencies can affect your health by slowing development of bones and teeth, causing dry eyes and poor night vision.
Carrots and good vision is an interesting subject to elaborate on. How do carrots help vision? Carrots are a source of vitamin A. Vitamin A is metabolized by enzymes in the liver to create 11-cis-retinol. 11-cis-retinol is vital to eyesight. 11-cis-retinol is isomerizes when exposed to visible light in the rod cells of the retina.
Vitamin deficiencies are a serious health risk often overlooked. This vitamin deficiency is just one example of the affects that can occur on one of our most depended on senses; eyesight.
Daniel Weigum
- Avoiding vitamin deficiency is a silent step to good health.
Taking a vitamin supplement to avoid vitamin deficiency is a great step in a healthy direction.
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