What is Vitamin E

What is vitamin E and what does it do? Vitamin E is one of the nutrients that dissolve in fats found in many foods, in the body, and works as an antioxidant, helping to protect cells from damage caused by free radicals, free radicals are compounds formed when turning our bodies food we eat into energy, and people are exposed also compounds in the environment free from cigarette smoke, air pollution, ultraviolet radiation from the sun. As the body of vitamin E also needs to strengthen the immune system so you can repel the invasion of bacteria and viruses, it helps to expand the blood vessels and keep blood from clotting inside, in addition, vitamin E cells use to interact with each other and perform many important functions. * What are the foods that provide vitamin E? Vitamin E is naturally found in foods and is added to some processed foods, and you can get on the amounts of vitamin recommended E by eating a variety of foods, including the following: 1. vegetable oils such as wheat germ, sunflower and safflower oils are among the best sources of vitamin E. 2- corn and soybean oils also provide some vitamin E. 3- nuts (such as peanuts, nuts and, especially almonds), seeds (such as sunflower seeds) are also among the best sources of vitamin E. 4- green vegetables such as spinach and broccoli, and provide some vitamin E. 5- food companies add vitamin E to some breakfast cereals, fruit juices, margarines deployed, and other foods, and to learn that food containing vitamin E, you can check the product labels. * What types of vitamin E and dietary supplements are available? Vitamin E supplements come in quantities of different forms, two of the main things to consider when choosing a vitamin E supplement is: the form of Vitamin E: Vitamin E and although it seems like a single substance, is actually eight related food compounds name, including the alpha tocopherol. Each form has a different strength, or a different level of activity in the body, YMCA get vitamin E from sources (food) and natural that we get a "D-alpha-tocopherol" or food coated and dietary supplements, and have artificially (of making the laboratory) and a form of vitamin E in the form of "DL-alpha-tocopherol", the natural form is more effective. For example, 100 international units of vitamin E naturally equal to about 150 IU of synthetic form, and some vitamin E supplements provide other forms of the vitamin, such as gamma-tocopherol, tocotrienols and tocopherols mixed, and the researchers did not know whether any of these shapes are superior to alpha-tocopherol, which we get from natural nutrients.