The amount of vitamin A you need depends on your age and reproductive status. Recommended intakes for vitamin A for people aged 14 years and older range between 700 and 900 micrograms (mcg) of retinol activity equivalents (RAE) per day. Recommended intakes for women who are nursing range between 1,200 and 1,300 RAE.
Waimari said that, in separating Palestinian towns and villages from each other, the wall altered Palestinian society's close-knit family structure. People are unable to visit relatives on the other side of the wall. It had a very big impact on the psychology of Palestinians. Social life stopped, she said.
This view was viewed with scepticism even in East Germany. The wall had caused many families considerable hardship and the western view was that the wall was a means of preventing the people of East Germany from entering West Berlin was widely seen as being the truth. During the wall's existence there were around 5000 successful escapes into West Berlin. Varying reports claim that either 192 or 239 people were killed trying to cross the wall and many more were injured. Early successful attempts involved people jumping over the barbed wire fence or leaping from the windows of the apartments that lined the wall.