BIOLOGY
VITAMINS
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Forms and maintain healthy skin.
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Helps to absorb calcium
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Acts as antioxidant
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For normal blood clotting
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Detailed explanation-1: -Vitamin A also has antioxidant properties. Antioxidants are substances that might protect your cells against the effects of free radicals-molecules produced when your body breaks down food or is exposed to tobacco smoke and radiation. Free radicals might play a role in heart disease, cancer and other diseases.
Detailed explanation-2: -Tocopherols and tocotrienols (vitamin E) and ascorbic acid (vitamin C) as well as the carotenoids react with free radicals, notably peroxyl radicals, and with singlet molecular oxygen (1O2), this being the basis of their function as antioxidants.
Detailed explanation-3: -Vitamin A helps form and maintain healthy teeth, skeletal and soft tissue, mucus membranes, and skin. It is also known as retinol because it produces the pigments in the retina of the eye. Vitamin A promotes good eyesight, especially in low light. It also has a role in healthy pregnancy and breastfeeding.
Detailed explanation-4: -Vitamin A is needed for eye health, vision, immune function, cell growth, reproduction, and fetal development.