Vitamin A

In Indonesia parents expect to loose 25 % (1/4) of their children by the time they are 5 years old from malnutrition and disease and this is from a simple vitamin A deficiency. This is such a poor part in the world and they don't have the knowledge to know that they need to be giving their children vitamin A.
Pregnant women should be careful with their intake of Vitamin A, should not exceed 5000 IU/day because excess vitamin A can cause birth defects. We get our vitamin A mainly from animal sources and carotenoids from vegetables and fruits. When i think vitamin A, i think of bright colored foods, so foods such as carrots, sweet potatoes, mango, cantaloupe, watermelon, etc. Also found in liver, dairy products, eggs (yolk) and some margarine can be fortified with vitamin A.
Vitamin A is also a hormone regulator, that leads to it helping in menstrual symptoms, benign fibrocystic lumps in breast tissue and gastric ulcers.
It also protects against forms of cancer and is used in high dosages to treat types of cancer.
It aids in aging!!! Wrinkles that are caused from the sun can be treated with retanoic acid
(form of vitamin A), acutane is also retanoic acid(vit. A form) which is a used to treat acne. It also helps with night vision. The list goes on but those are some fun facts!