[net.cooks] How much Vitamin A is too much?

oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious Oyster) (01/22/86)

In article <403@ubvax.UUCP> avinash@ubvax.UUCP (Avinash Marathe) writes:
>There is no way one can get Vitamin A toxicity from eating Vitamin A from
>vegetable sources.
>
   What is it, then, when you turn yellow from eating too many carrots (lest
you scoff, it happened to my wife when she was younger)?  Is that just a 
beta-kerotene (sp?) overdose?  Can it be harmful?

 - Joel ({allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!oyster)

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