Vitamins
What are the fat-soluble vitamins? Water-soluble?
Fat: ADEK
Water: B and C
Which type can lose nutrients if boiled?
Scurvy is a deficiency of what?
Vitamin C
How much sodium is recommended each day?
no more than 2300 mg/day
What can be decreased to promote short-term satiety?
Ghrelin
What organ regulates water balance?
Kidneys
What is it called when nutrients have a role in reducing free radicals?
What vitamins can do this?
Antioxidants
Vitamins: A, C, E
What is a deficiency of vitamin A that impact eyesight?
Night blindness
How can this be prevented?
Hypertension is caused from eating not enough of what?
Potassium
What diet helps reduce hypertension?
What can adipose tissue secrete to promote long-term satiety?
Leptin
Where can we get vitamin D?
Food, supplements, and in our skin from the sun
Which one of these are most likely to lead to a toxicity?
Diseases that impact pancreas and liver functions can lead to what vitamin deficiencies?
Fat-soluble vitamin deficiencies
What is a deficiency of vitamin D?
Rickets
Osteomalacia
Which is in children?
What is the difference between heme and non heme iron?
Heme: Animal products
Nonheme: plant products
What enhances the absorption of nonheme iron?
Is bottled water or tap water more nutritious and safer to drink?
They are the same! One is not better than the other nutrition and safety wise
A deficiency of folate can lead to what?
Neural tube defects/Spina bifida
What vitamins are co-enzymes and help in metabolism?
B vitamins
What are sources of vitamin B12?
Meat and fortified foods
What is the deficiency and toxicity of iron?
What can this cause in children?
Toxicity: hemochromatosis
What beverages lead to water loss and dehydration?
Alcoholic beverages
What are some functions of water?
- lubrication
- temperature regulation and sweating
- transportation (waste product removal)
- universal solvent
What are the 3Ds (or 4) of Pellagra?
Dementia, diarrhea, dermatitis, and death
What is this a deficiency of?
What source would cause the highest risk of a toxicity?
Supplements
How can you decrease the risk of osteoporosis? 3 things
Consume calcium and vitamin D
Do weight-bearing activities
What is water toxicity?
happens when kidneys cannot excrete water fast enough
What mineral is important for thyroid?
Iodine