Intake of vitamin A may be associated with a lower risk of a common type of skin cancer, a study claims. The study of about 125,000 Americans found that people with the highest intake of vitamin A lowered their risk of squamous cell skin cancer by around 15 per cent. Most of the vitamin A they consumed came from foods, according to the study published in the journal JAMA Dermatology . “These findings just add another reason to have a healthy diet with fruits and vegetables.
Vitamin A from plant sources is safe,” said an associate professor at Brown University in the US. Healthy food sources of vitamin A include sweet potato, cantaloupe, carrots, black-eyed peas, sweet red peppers, broccoli, spinach, dairy foods, fish and meat, especially liver, according to the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). Vitamin A is a fat soluble vitamin. That means it can collect in the fat cells.…
