Nutrition: Vitamins
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- Good sources of folate include:
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A. citrus fruits, dairy products, and eggs; B. liver, legumes, and leafy green veges.
C. dark green veges., corn, and cabbage
D. potatoes, broccoli, and whole wheat bread - 2 Vitamin A functions:
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1. active in vision
2. promotes a healthy immune system - Beta-carotene is:
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1. vitamin a precursor
2. antioxidant - Vitamin D's action?
- acts like a hormone
- Vitamin D's role in bone?
- Makes calcium and phosphorus available in the blood.
- Sources of vitamin A?
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dark green: spinach, broccoli
dark orange: cantaloupe, sweet potatoes, pumpkin, carrots - What organ manufactures vitamin D?
- liver
- Vitamin e deficiency results in?
- erythrocyte hemolysis
- Toxcity of vitamin E results in?
- hemorrhages: high levels of vitamin E interferes with vitamin K
- Functin of vitamin K?
- role in blood clotting
- Jaundice is a toxicity symptom of what vitamin?
- vitamin K
- Bacteria in the intestinal tract synthesize what vitamin?
- vitamin K
- Vitamin K foods?
- Green leafy veges., members of the cabbage family and liver
- Many coenzymes have what vitamins as part of their structure?
- B vitamins
- Disease from a deficiency of thiamin?
- Beriberi
- Disease that results from a deficiency of niacin?
- Pellagra
- severe form of thiamin deficiency from the abuse of alcohol. symptoms indistinguishable from alcohol abuse itself.
- Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome
- What vitamin plays a role in protein and amino acid metabolism?
- Vitamin B6
- coenzyme in cell division?
- folate
- Coenzyme in new cell synthesis and maintains nerve integrity?
- Vitamin B12
- What vitamin is present only in foods of animal origin?
- vitamin b12
- What vitamin is involved in collagen formation?
- vitamin c
- What vitamin may be a possible antihistamine?
- vitamin C
- An important antioxidant.
- vitamin c
- Scurvy is a deficiency in what vitamin?
- vitamin c
- What vitamin enhance iron absorption?
- vitamin c
- 3 non b vitamins?
- inositol, choline, and carnitine (all 3 are coenzymes
- Most abundant mineral in the body? 2nd most abundant?
- calcium, phosphorus
- Most common nutrient deficiency worldwide?
- iron
- A blood iron deficiency characterized by small, pale red blood cells.
- iron-deficiency anemia
- What 2 minerals acts as a cofactor for enzymes?
- zinc and manganese
- what mineral is an integral part of thyroid hormones?
- iodine
- Deficiency in iodine causes?
- goiter
- ___ in cell membranes move ions in or out of the cells.
- proteins
- 7 major minerals?
- sodium, chloride, potassium, sulfur, phosphorus, calcium, magnesium
- what mineral is required for DNA and RNA synthesis?
- zinc