Recent nutritional research has found that most people do not consume enough Vitamin A on a daily basis. This is not good, because Vitamin A is essential to good health. Major health problems can result from long-term Vitamin A deficiencies.

Vitamin A is essential from the start of life. Pregnant women must be sure to ingest enough Vitamin A, which will be more than they needed before pregnancy, because Vitamin A plays a key role in the proper physical development of a fetus. It helps to sustain proper cell differentiation, which is the specialization of cells upon division to do certain tasks, meaning that cells for the heart take on the heart