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Vitamin E Explained

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Vitamin E is a fat soluble vitamin which has a number of important functions in the body.  It was discovered in 1922 by two University of California researchers, Herbert Evans and Catherine Bishop, when they were doing an experiment involving rats on a semi-purified diet.  The rats grew well but when the females became pregnant their pups would die in the womb.  However, when their diet was supplemented with lettuce and then wheat germ, the female rats would give birth to healthy pups, leading Evans and Bishop to conclude that their diet was missing a “Factor X”.  This “Factor X” was later … [Read more...]

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