Vitamin A

Vitamin A

Vitamin A" is also known as retinol. Good sources

of vitamin A include cheese, eggs, oily fish (such as mackerel), milk, fortified margarine and yoghurt.

Liver is also a rich source of vitamin A. But, because it's such a rich source, if you already eat it every week, you might want to choose not to have it more often.

If you're pregnant, you should avoid eating liver because of the amount of vitamin A it contains.

Vitamin A" is a fat-soluble vitamin. This means you don't need it every day because any of the vitamin your body doesn't need immediately is stored for future use.

You should be able to get all the vitamin A you need from your daily diet. This is:

0.7 mg a day for men
0.6 mg a day for women

Vitamin A" has a number of important functions. For example it:

    * helps maintain the health of skin and mucus linings (in the nose for example)
    * helps strengthen immunity from infections
    * helps vision in dim light

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