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Vitamin E Intakes and Status in Toddlers, School Kids and Adolescents: What Do We Know?

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α-Tocopherol, being the most important vitamin E compound within the human diet, is the major lipophilic antioxidant in the cell antioxidant system. Its intake is important from early infancy up to old age. Absence of a clinically overt disease due to deficient intakes of vitamin E makes it difficult to develop intake recommendations for this essential micronutrient. However, this lipid-soluble vitamin is very important during development from infancy to adolescence. This chapter presents the current situation regarding reference values for vitamin E intake. It also shows published data on vitamin E intake as well as on vitamin E status for toddlers, school kids and adolescents.

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    Volker Böhm

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  1. University of Hohenheim, Institute of Nutritional Sciences, Stuttgart , Germany

    Peter Weber

  2. University of Applied Sciences Fulda, Nutritional, Food and Consumer Sciences, Fulda, Germany

    Marc Birringer

  3. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA

    Jeffrey B. Blumberg

  4. University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplain 1, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Manfred Eggersdorfer

  5. University of Hohenheim, Institute of Nutritional Sciences, Stuttgart , Germany

    Jan Frank

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Böhm, V. (2019). Vitamin E Intakes and Status in Toddlers, School Kids and Adolescents: What Do We Know?. In: Weber, P., Birringer, M., Blumberg, J., Eggersdorfer, M., Frank, J. (eds) Vitamin E in Human Health. Nutrition and Health. Humana Press, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05315-4_14

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