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Gormy Cuss

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19. The point was, the doctor who authored your link ignored the difficulty of excreting excess amts
Fri Sep 25, 2015, 07:11 PM
Sep 2015

of fat-soluble vitamins. And yes, in a typical American diet it's hard to reach toxic A levels because most of us don't eat lots of bear or seal livers or drink cod liver oil every day, but in some North American diets acute toxicity is a real possibilty especially in children.

Much more common is orange tinted skin from too much beta carotene.

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