Vitamin A - Answer- helps with eye vision, bone growth, reproduction, cell division, it is an antioxidant--it regulates the immune system too.
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... [Show More] C - Answer- helps aiding in wound healing and helps with absorption of iron
Calcium - Answer- helps with blood clotting, develop + maintenance of bones and teeth
Vitamin D - Answer- helps with regulating calcium and phosphorous absorption of iron.
Vitamin E - Answer- it's an antioxidant, protection of cell structure especially red blood cells and epithelial cells
Riboflavin - Answer- Important for body growth, red blood cell production and helps in releasing energy from carbohydrate; necessary for tissue growth and healthy eyes
Thiamine - Answer- Help the body convert food (carbs) to fuel (glucose)
Potassium - Answer- important in conducting electricity throughout the whole body.
Avitaminosis - Answer- disease (such as pellagra) resulting from a deficiency of one or more vitamins vitamin deficiency
Biotin - Answer- A vitamin belonging to the vitamin B complex that is important in the metabolism of carbohydrates and fats. It is found in liver, egg yolks, milk, yeast, and some vegetables.
What are the fat soluble vitamins? - Answer- Vitamin A,D,E,K
What are the water soluble vitamins? - Answer- Vitamin B and C
What are the purpose of Vitamins? - Answer- Essential nutrients that do not yield energy, but that are required for growth and proper functioning of the body.
What are the purpose of Minerals? - Answer- Substances that the body cannot manufacture but that are needed for forming healthy bones and teeth and regulating many vital body processes.
Phosphorus - Answer- This is the second largest mineral, stored in bones, important in the buffer system.
The Bicarbonate Buffer System: - Answer- a solution that resists a change in pH when acids or bases are added.
Magnesium - Answer- A mineral part of bones: helps muscles relax after contraction deficiency associated with heart disease.
Diurectic - Answer- This type of medicine, excretes sodium and thus pulls excess fluid from the body.
Choride - Answer- This is closely associated with sodium, this mineral; important in acid-base and fluid balance/ apart of table salt.
All the MAJOR MINERALS: - Answer- Calcium, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, choride, magnesium
Selenium - Answer- Trace mineral that acts with vitamin E as an antioxidant. Research is investigating role in cancer prevention.
What is Heme? - Answer- It is a form of iron, that is better absorbed bound to hemoglobin and myoglobin in meats fish and poultry.
What do bones do in our body? - Answer- They storage calcium, iron, zinc, and other minerals.
Function of an Acid-Base: - Answer- Sodium and Potassium play a role in maintaining balance for the phosphorous--also plays a role as a buffer.
Function of Folate: - Answer- Water soluble--vitamin B9 important in cell division, deficiency during pregnancy linked to neural tube defect.
Iodine is important:
The disorders: - Answer- A trace mineral that aids in the development and functioning of the thyroid gland--deficiency of this mineral, causes goiters (thyroid gets larger in order to capture iodine) pregnancy deficiency cause mental/physical retardation
Why do we need Vitamin D? - Answer- Assist calcium and phosphorous absorption. Estrogen and weight bearing exercise enhance calcium deposits.
% of water in body - Answer- 60% to 70% of total body weight. blood. Infants have the greatest percentage , and older people have the least. a person cannot survive without more than a few days.
Antioxidants - Answer- Vitamins that help protect healthy cells from the damage caused by the normal aging process as well as from certain types of cancer Vitamin E
clot - Answer- major role of vitamin k [Show Less]