About Vitamin Angels founder Howard Schiffer - 'Food Matters'

An estimated 190 million children under the age of 5 suffer from vitamin A deficiency (VAD) worldwide. About 250,000 to 500,000 of these children become blind every year and half of them die within 12 months of losing their site.

Why Vitamins?
Vitamin A is a micronutrient essential for proper immune function and aids in our body's natural defences against infections diseases. Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is a major contributing cause to death and sickness among children under five from such common diseases as measles, malaria, acute respiratory tract infections and diarrhea. Supplementation with vitamin A alone reduces infant and child mortality, combined, dramatically -- by approximately 25%.

This from Howard Schiffer - "We give children a high dose of vitamin A—which costs only 25 cents and increases survival rates by 23 percent—or we give them a year's supply of children's chewable multiples. Or a woman may receive 360 prenatal vitamins to take her completely through her pregnancy and six months into the baby's infancy. Essential nutrients enable young immune systems to fight infectious diseases. It only takes 25 cents to provide a child with Vitamin A and antiparasitics for a year."

"It's quite remarkable once you start getting moms and children on vitamins. They're healthy, they're bigger, they're fatter, they're taller. And when women don't have to have 10 babies to have four survive, that can fundamentally change a society. Population density goes down and parents have fewer mouths to feed, so nutrition levels go up, economic well-being increases, and education improves."

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[eeeeeegadd]

Mega dosage can reverse illness. People have been brought out of comas with mega dosing vitamin c intravenously... 50 grams a day or more! Mal-nutrition is death! I'm glad he's doing something but a full spectrum vitamin is what they need.

[naturopathicPT]

What Vitamin A derivative is this?

[st4ticblu3]

I switch to organics and raw foods a week ago. I don't get tired anymore, think clearly, don't get angry, and am generally happier. Stop eating garbage. Your body it your temple.