Why can fat soulable vitamins build up to a toxic level in body ?

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Why can fat soulable vitamins build up to a toxic level in body ?

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Vitamins are essential compounds for the metabolic activities of our body. They are required in very small quantities. Vitamins do not provide energy, but control energy yielding reactions of our body. There are about 30 vitamins known. On the bais of their solubility and other physiological properties these can be classified as: Fat soluble vitamins and water soluble vitamins. 

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