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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color:#99cc00;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ec89bbb5-de2e-473d-a297-de473a372562/454E3786-0C49-440D-8480-1B8823B4D4EF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/vitamin-a.htm" href="http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/vitamin-a.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">recipes.howstuffworks.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/vitamin-a.htm"><DIV>Vitamin A is is important to vision, especially the ability to see in the dark. A deficiency of vitamin A leads to xerophthalmia, which causes irreversible damage to the eyes and blindness. Vitamin A deficiency is a major cause of blindness in the world. Vitamin A is also important to maintaining healthy skin and it helps the body to resist infection.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/vitamin-a.htm"><DIV>Vitamin A is important for the immune system, and it keeps skin and mucous membrane cells healthy. Vitamin A helps to fight cancer by inhibiting the production of DNA in cancerous cells. It slows down tumor growth in established cancers and may keep leukemia cells from dividing.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/vitamin-a.htm"><DIV>Vitamin A can be found in both animal and plant foods. It is found as retinol in animal foods and as carotenoids in plant foods. These are compounds the body can convert into vitamin A. The single best source of vitamin A is liver.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/vitamin-a.htm"><UL><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><FONT size="2"><A href="http://health.howstuffworks.com/vitamin-b1.htm" linkindex="77" set="yes">Vitamin B1</A></FONT><FONT size="2"><SPAN><BR /></SPAN></FONT></LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><FONT size="2"><A href="http://health.howstuffworks.com/vitamin-b-21.htm" linkindex="78">Vitamin B2</A></FONT><FONT size="2"><SPAN><BR /></SPAN></FONT></LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><FONT size="2"><A href="http://health.howstuffworks.com/vitamin-b-3.htm" linkindex="79" set="yes">Vitamin B3</A></FONT><FONT size="2"><SPAN><BR /></SPAN></FONT></LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><FONT size="2"><A href="http://health.howstuffworks.com/vitamin-b5.htm" linkindex="80" set="yes">Vitamin B5</A></FONT><BR /></LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><FONT size="2"><A href="http://health.howstuffworks.com/vitamin-b6.htm" linkindex="81" set="yes">Vitamin B6</A></FONT><FONT size="2"><SPAN><BR /></SPAN></FONT></LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><FONT size="2"><A href="http://health.howstuffworks.com/vitamins.htm" linkindex="82" set="yes">Vitamins</A></FONT><FONT size="2"><SPAN><BR /></SPAN></FONT></LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><FONT size="2"><A href="http://shopproducts.howstuffworks.com/Nutrition/SF-3/BEFID-205/KEYWORD-vitamin%20a/MD-0" linkindex="83" set="yes">Prices on vitamin A supplements</A></FONT><FONT size="2"><SPAN><BR /></SPAN></FONT></LI></UL></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/454E3786-0C49-440D-8480-1B8823B4D4EF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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