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Article: Vitamin E practicality reviewed: vitamin E is needed by and critical for all animals and humans. The interrelationship of vitamin E with several nutrients and compounds makes defining its exact requirements challenging.(Nutrition & Health: Swine)
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- Feedstuffs
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- November 27, 2006
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VITAMIN E is essential for all animals. However, opinions differ as to the levels (relative to conditions) at which vitamin E must be fed due to its overall role as an antioxidant and its nutritional interrelationships with other nutrients such as selenium, sulfur amino acids, polyunsaturated fatty acids and vitamin C as well as synthetic antioxidants. In human nutrition, vitamin E has been known as a vitamin "looking for a disease."
Vitamin E has been shown to play a powerful antioxidant role in preventing free radical injury and enhancing immune response. Vitamin E has been linked to preventing cancer, heart disease, cataracts and other diseases. Because ...