Around the world some 500,000 children are blind due to vitamin A deficiency. You get vitamin A from orange vegetables that contain beta-carotene, from dairy foods fortified with Vitamin A and D, from animal meats containing vitamin A and from multivitamins. The daily requirement is 5000 units and negative effects on bone occur at about 10,000 units so get your vitamin A from a multivitamin and from orange vegetables such as carrots, pumpkin, and squash. This is the first vitamin of many that I will tell you about including the B vitamins, vitamin C, vitamin D, vitamin E and others

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