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If you like your skin looking healthy and refreshed, and you enjoy using your eyes to see, then you might be interested in getting reacquainted with the forgotten or long-lost friend, Vitamin A. This vitamin is a good friend to us all and should not be ignored from our diets. Vitamin A will wage war against cancer while keeping your skin youthful. That's right, you want to slow the clock? So do I. Enlist in the aid of Vitamin A. As a dental practice management consultant, my clients advocate getting plenty of vitamin A and use this information on their dental advertising materials to educate people on how Vitamin A is instrumental in the formation and maintaining of healthy teeth and jawbones. You like having all your teeth? So do I.
While Polish biochemist Casimir Funk is credited with coining the term "vitamine," which later became "vitamin," Vitamin A was first identified somewhere between 1912-1914 by Elmer V. McCollom and M. Davis. It was first synthesized in 1947. A healthy diet rich in foods laden with Vitamin A might be the only thing you need to retain this important vitamin in your diet. Such foods include sweet potatoes, carrots, mangoes, spinach, cantaloupe and dried apricots. You can also find Vitamin A in liver, liver pate, milk and hard cheeses.
In vegetables, such as spinach and carrots, Vitamin A is water soluble. We know it as beta caroten, so your mother wasn't fooling around when she told you to eat those carrots before leaving the dinner table. Honestly, she had your best interests at heart and perhaps that while you still have your enviable 20/20 vision. And don't forget, Vitamin A keeps you young, and hopefully, free from disease.
To make the best of Vitamin A, it is important to consume healthy fats and protein which binds with the vitamin to increase its strength to aid it in moving through your body. If you fail to consume enough of this vitamin, you are putting yourself at risk for a vitamin deficiency, which will affect your mood and overall productivity. Even worse, a prolonged deficiency of Vitamin A can put you at risk for infections and cancer. That said, everything must be taken in moderation, and the same is no less true of taking Vitamin A. Too much Vitamin A will cause joint discomfort and abdominal pain.
Regardless, it is important to ensure that Vitamin A is part of your nutritional intake by making sure you eat plenty of foods rich in beta carotene. If you find that you have a deficiency, a doctor might tell you that you need to take additional supplements. You should always discuss with your doctor what vitamins you might need more of in order to keep your body at its optimal health. Be sure to communicate any side effects that might develop if you start taking vitamin supplements. Taking vitamins can help you avoid unnecessary medical and dental consulting appointments, and are a simple supplement that can you help feel and be at your best so that you are healthy, happy and are enjoying your life and your prolonged youth.
