Like all other vitamins, vitamin A is
very important for our health and beauty. Perhaps eyes are the first affected
parts in our body if we lack vitamin A in our diet. For maintaining good eye
sight we should be careful about our vitamin A intake. People who use their
eyes a lot must increase their vitamin A intake.
Our
overall beauty depends a lot on our skin conditions. A glowing, smooth and
clean skin is the prerequisite for beauty. Vitamin A being a beauty friendly
vitamin, it reduces wrinkles, smooth roughness of skin and fades brown spots.
This vitamin reduces wrinkles buy firming and tightening our skin. On the other
hand the low intake of vitamin A causes skin dryness and develops pimples. The
excessive consumption of this vitamin is the cause of dryness, roughness of our
skin and also falling of hair. The deficiency of vitamin A is also responsible
of dandruff.
Vitamin
A derivatives are called retinol. This is
present in many beauty products. Such retinol added cosmetics are used for skin
treatments for anti aging and acne healing .This vitamin being an anti-
oxidant, helps in the growth and renewal of new skin cells. The over dose of
retinol is bad for our skin health.
Vitamin
A also boosts up our immune systems and develops resistance power in our body
against infection.
The easiest
source of vitamin A are carrots, egg-yolk, cod liver oil, milk, spinach, melons,
broccoli, tomatoes, pumpkin, papaya, green leafy vegetables etc.
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