- Primary function of this B vitamin is to help release energy from carbohydrate
- Besides role in blood clotting, vitamin K important for ____ health
- Vitamin A deficiency progresses, cells that line cornea of eye lose ability to produce mucus = eye is dry, called
- Except for vitamin __, fat-sol vitamins are not readily excreted
- Essential organic (carbon-containing) substances needed in small amounts in the diet for normal function, growth and maintenance in the body
- Foods that are sources of the chemicals that provide health benefits beyond being essential dietary nutrients are termed _____
- Provitamin A carotenoids found mainly in dark green and yellow-orange vegetables and some fruits
- People with fat-malabsorption conditions are susceptible to vitamin __ deficiency due to lower body stores of vitamin __ than other fat-sol vitamins
- It indirectly has an antioxidant role through support of enzyme glutathione peroxidase
- When you are generation energy (ATP) by burning carbs and fat, a ??? coenzyme is used; Natural method to lower blood lipids including LDL cholesterol
- ___% of water-sol vitamins in diet are absorbed
- What is the micronutrient for these deficiency symptoms: Anemia with too many large blood cells in blood stream despite folate intake; nerve degeneration, paralysis, death
- Many foods of plant origin contain carotenoids (phytochemicals) which can be converted into vitamin A; three can be converted into retional in body
- 90% stored in liver; 10% adipose tissue, kidneys and lungs
- Vitamin ___ toxicity is more frequent
- What is the micronutrient for these deficiency symptoms: weakness, slow wound healing, bone pain, bleeding gums, pinpoint hemorrhages on skin
- condition where skin cells produce too much keratin and block hair follicles = gooseflesh or toadskin
- This vitamin promotes collagen synthesis
- What does vitamin D regulate the absorption of from the small intestine?
- Who is most susceptible to overt deficiencies of B vitamins?