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The Importance of Vitamin A in Our Health
Vitamins are essential for life, are essential in many physiological processes, which enable our body to function properly. Among the vitamins we have the first discovery, the vitamin A , analyzing essential foods such as butter, milk and egg yolks began to consider its importance.
Along with the C and E, vitamin A, complete the group of antioxidants . This means that neutralizes the action of free radicals responsible for aging of cells and eventually cause diseases of all types, including cancer . On the other hand, we should mention that vitamin A prevents infection and is essential for skin health and growth. Although one of its most outstanding attributes is to protect eye health, preventing glaucoma (eye strain).
Vitamin A is fat soluble, thus found in animal foods like liver, egg yolks, full fat dairy products and fish liver oils. Carotenoids, including vitamin A, as we all know are present in fruits and vegetables yellow or orange and also in dark green vegetables, melon, apricot, peach, carrots, chard, spinach, squash, peppers, etc..
To take advantage of foods that contain Vitamin A is best to avoid exposure to sunlight, and eating foods rich in vitamin E , as a deficit from the first can hinder the absorption of the latter.
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Some Tips to Prevent Cancer
A significant percent of cancers could be prevented if during the life take a number of precautions that have been proven to reduce the chance of developing various cancers. In this paper we present some recommendations that should become facts of everyday life.
- Change in eating habits: Calorie restriction, varied diet that meets the recommendations of vitamins, minerals, proteins, fats and carbohydrates.
- Avoid obesity from an early age. Obesity in childhood causes a precocious and incomplete development of the reproductive organs, the prelude to cancer of the reproductive organs.
- Reducing animal fat in the diet. Animal fats stimulate the production of bile acids that are mixed with feces and travel to the colon where they are converted into carcinogenic compounds by bacteria in the intestinal flora.
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