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Advantages of Fruits and Vegetables –

1. Apples - Protects your heart, Prevents constipation, Blocks diarrhea, Improves lung capacity, Cushions joints.

2. Apricots - Combats cancer, Controls blood pressure, saves your eyesight, Shields against Alzheimer’s, Slows aging process.

3. Bananas - Protects your heart, Strengthens bones, Controls blood pressure, Blocks diarrhea.

4. Beans - Prevents constipation, Helps hemorrhoids, Lowers cholesterol, Combats cancer, Stabilizes blood sugar.

5. Beets - Controls blood pressure, Combats cancer, Strengthens bones, Protects your heart, Aids weight loss.

6. Blueberries - Combats cancer, Protects your heart, Stabilizes blood sugar, Boosts memory, Prevents constipation.

7. Broccoli - Strengthens bones, Saves eyesight, Combats cancer, Protects your heart, Controls blood pressure.

8. Cabbage - Combats cancer, Prevents constipation, Promotes weight loss, Protects your heart, Helps hemorrhoids.

9. Artichokes - Aids digestion, Lowers cholesterol, Protects your heart, Stabilizes blood sugar, Guards against liver disease.

10. Avocados - Battles diabetes, Lowers cholesterol, Helps stops strokes, Controls blood pressure, smooths skin.

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…Everything about Vitamin A – Deficiency, Symptoms, Precautions, Healing

DEFICIENCY OF VITAMIN A -

1. Vitamin A deficiency primarily affects the health of the skin, hair, eyes, and immune system, though loss of appetite, bone abnormalities, and growth retardation are also associated with inadequate intake of this vitamin.

2. A goose bump-like appearance of the skin caused by excessive production of keratin (a protein found in skin) that blocks hair follicles.

3. Prolonged vitamin A deficiency can lead to night blindness, due to impaired production of rhodopsin, the compound in the retina responsible for detecting small amounts of light.

HEALING AND THERAPEUTIC PROPERTIES –

1. When taken in large amount for treating deficiencies (7,500 mcg –15,000 mcg) a day, it is beneficial in treatment of cold, sinus, influenza and asthma.

2. It is valuable in curing night blindness which responds well to 9,000mcg of Vitamin A daily for a week.

3. Vitamin A is beneficial in treatment of acne.

4. Intake of Vitamin A (7,500 mcg – 15,000 mcg) in large doses helps relieve warts and other growths in skin such as boils, rashes and carbuncles.

PRECAUTIONS AND SYMPTONS –

1. Greater than 30,000 mcg of Vitamin A can produce toxic results in adults if continued for months.

2. Greater than 5,500 mcg of Vitamin A can produce toxic results in infants.

Symptoms include hair loss, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, scaly skin, blurred vision, rashes, headache and liver enlargement.

3. Acute toxicity from single massive dose manifests itself as abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, headache, dizziness and sluggishness.

4. Chronic toxicity may occur following ingestion of 12,000 mcg or more daily for prolonged periods. It is characterized by joint pains, hair loss, dryness and fissures of lips, loss of appetite, low grade fever, and weight loss.

Everything about Vitamin A -

Vitamin A – is a group of compounds that play an important role in :-

1. Vision

2. bone growth

3. reproduction

4. cell division

5. cell differentiation (in which a cell becomes part of the brain, muscle, lungs, blood, or other specialized tissue).

Vitamin A helps regulate the immune system, which helps prevent or fight off infections by making white blood cells that destroy harmful bacteria and viruses.

Vitamin A also may help lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell) fight infections more effectively.

SOURCES OF VITAMIN A -

Vitamin A found in foods that come from animals such as sheep liver, egg yolk, whole milk, butter, ghee is called preformed vitamin A. It is absorbed in the form of retinol, one of the most usable (active) forms of vitamin A.

Vegetables like turnip greens, drumsticks, beet, carrots and spinach contains lot of carotene. It is called pro vitamin A carotene. They can be made into retinol in the body.

The absorption of Vitamin A is poor in case of diarrhea, jaundice, and abdominal disorders.