Sunday, April 22, 2012

You might have heard about vitamin E if you pay a little attention to healthy living. You might have heard about it from cosmetic commercials or read about some of its benefits from the magazine. Vitamin E is certainly a vital nutrient for body function such as a healthy heart; it helps prevent heart disease, as well as keep the not so healthy one from getting worse. Certainly, vitamin E can be found in many kinds of foods. Vegetable oil like olive oil has a lot of vitamin e in. You may add a couple of table spoons of olive oil into your salad or when frying using Orgreenic pan.

When grilling, you can add some of the healthy oil with vitamin e in on the grill. If you're using Big Boss Grill to cook, this will certainly come in handy to prevent the foods from sticking onto the grill. This is just another way to add more vitamin e into your food. You can do the same when you make sweet treats with Bake Pops pan as well.

Vitamin E is also crucial when it comes to cell membrane protection against any free radicals. Free radicals have been known for damaging our body cells, causing us to develop dangerous degenerative diseases like cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and hypertension. The reason why it is efficient at fighting against free radicals is because it's a fat soluble vitamin; therefore, it is easily absorbed into the cell membranes and served as the safeguards. It can be simply put that vitamin e is needed for healthy immune system.
A person should consume enough daily required amount of vitamin e to stay away from such dangerous diseases mentioned above. The adequate amount depends on a person's body weight. It has been said that the more saturated fat in a person's diet, the more of the vitamin e that person needs to consume. That's why it is encouraged that if one wants to prevent cancer, diabetes, hypertension, and heart diseases, one should try their best to stay away from greasy unhealthy foods that are full with chemicals and saturated fats. But not all fats are bad. You will still need healthy oils (which are rich in vitamin E and other antioxidants) like wheat germ oil, flaxseed oil, pumpkin seed oils, etc.



The dangerous thing about not having enough vitamin e is that takes months if not years for a dangerous affect to show or affect a person. By the time the results of vitamin e deficiency are revealed, so much of the damage has already been done to the body. In some severe cases, a person may have already lost an eye sight due to the lack of vitamin e causing the damage to the nerves of the retina. This does not usually happen because not that much vitamin e is required to prevent such an ailment.

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