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Taking a look at vitamin A
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Taking a look at vitamin A
Tuesday 10 April 2018, 02:59 PM
The widespread belief that carrots are good for our vision and particularly our night vision can be traced back to British propaganda from World War II
Bottles of multivitamins are a common sight on New Zealand pharmacy shelves. But what is the clinical evidence backing up their use? Each month, complementary medicine expert Shaun Holt takes a look at the science in his A to Z of Vitamins series.
Vitamin A is the name given to a group of fat-soluble retinoids, including retinol and retinal, which are involved in immune function, vision, reprodu
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