Vitamin A from fish, beef, egg yolks and butter is known to promote good eyesight and healthy skin. But women who supplement their diets with the vitamin A compound, retinol, may do themselves harm, not good.
Research published recently in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) suggests too much retinol may increase the risk of hip fractures in postmenopausal women.
The findings indicate there may be a need to reassess the amounts of this vitamin that go into fortified foods and supplements.
Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Harvard Medical School in Boston uncovered the problem of hip fractures after analyzing data on 72,337 women between ...
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