Vitamin E deficiency signs
According to the book The Complete Idiot's Guide to Vitamins and Minerals, vitamin E deficiency in the long run can bring damage to the nerves, especially nerves in the spine. Sometimes there is damage in the retina of the eye.
Vitamin E deficiency should be rare. That's because of the daily food intake of almost all people get 7-11 mg of vitamin E. Even so, it turns out in the U.S. the famous prosperous and eats a lot, carrying a mild deficiency of vitamin E.
Apart from daily food intake, deficiency of vitamin E can also be caused by medical conditions such as:
1.Menderita cystic fibrosis
Cause, this disease can not digest fats properly, so it can not absorb enough vitamin E.
2. Suffering from Crohn's disease
Patients with this disease can not absorb enough vitamin E through the intestines.
3. Suffering from liver disease
Patients with liver disease can not use vitamin E to the right.
4. Are on a diet low in fat and low in calories
Lack of fat in the body causing disruption of the supply of vitamin E. This is because vitamin E including fat-soluble vitamins. We need a little fat to absorb vitamin E.
5. Drinking certain drugs
Drinking a cholesterol-lowering drugs can reduce the absorption of vitamin E and fat-soluble vitamins other.
According to the book's Vitamins and Minerals Handbook, there are signs of a person's body needs extra vitamin E, which is the body easily bruised, heal old wounds, varicose veins, lack of sex drive, infertility and loss of muscle strength. quoted from: http://kesehatan.kompas.com/read/2010/06/24/16455697/Tanda.Kekurangan.Vitamin.E
June 24 2010 08:34 pm | TIPS AND TRICKS
