Excess Vitamin A May Harm Bones

Nutrition is all about eating healthy so that you can get all the vitamins and minerals that the body needs to function optimally. Getting the required daily allowance of these nutrients can become very important. Eating a balanced meal every time is essential to maintaining good health throughout your life.

At times however, we can go overboard with supplements. Just because we are unable to eat the proper foods, we feel that it’s okay to take multivitamin tablets and capsules to make up the nutritional needs of the body. Having excess vitamins and minerals should not make a difference as they get flushed out of the body without absorption is what we tell ourselves. This is not really true.

A scientific study published in the Journal of Endocrinology has found that sustained intake of high levels of Vitamin A can be dangerous. The study conducted by the University of Goethenburg in Sweden, followed people who had 4 to 13 times the recommended daily allowance of the vitamin. It also focused on mice that were given a concentrated high dose of Vitamin A daily.

The findings were that having too much Vitamin A in form of supplements could lead to an increased risk of bone damage. A decrease in bone thickness was also observed in the mice in the study, which led them to fracture easily and cause health issues.

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