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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response - (nf)
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Date: Sat, 17-Dec-83 23:45:09 EST
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inmet!tower    Dec 16 12:08:00 1983

Vitamin A overdose can also occur due to a deficiency of the
essnetial amino acids and fats.
 
The blood has a special enzyme/fatty acid complex that transports
Vitamin A to the eyes (The major place its used in the body).
One of the first things the body stops producing in the face of
protein deficiency is this complex, which leaves the Vitamin A
naked in the blood and allows it to get to places it shouldn't be.
Vitamin A in its raw form is quite poisonous.

Interesting how much trouble evolution went to to get sight...

-len tower        harpo!inmet!tower        Cambridge, MA