Vitamin E

Vitamin E is a fat-soluble vitamin found in vegetable oil, nuts, leafy green vegetables and whole-wheat flour. Vitamin E is an antitoxin that protects your cells against the potentially damaging byproducts of your body’s metabolism. The daily amount of Vitamin E that should taken by a healthy adult is 15 mg or 22 IU (International Units).

Vitamin E does many good things for our body. It promotes normal growth and development in younger individuals. It acts as an anti-blood clotting agent, which helps to reduce your risk of heart attacks. Vitamin E is also good in preventing cataracts. Cataracts are growths on the eye that cause your vision to cloud and can lead to blindness. Antitoxins like Vitamin E have shown a delay to the onset of cataract growth in studies. Vitamin E can also help treat circulatory problems, protect the lungs from air pollution, lessen some types of hair loss, prevent diaper rash and decrease scarring.

Vitamin E deficiency is uncommon to humans. It is sometimes seen in people who cannot absorb dietary fat or in premature babies. Vitamin E deficiency