Water Soluble Vitamins
Fat Soluble Vitamins
Minerals
Deficiencies
Potpourri
100
Niacin or B3 comes from these food sources
What are poultry, fish, whole grains, and protein foods?
100
The degree which vitamins can be absorbed and utilized by the body is called this.
What is Bioavailability?
100
Minerals are this chemical element with a positive or negative charge, allowing them to biochemically react
What are ions?
100
Bone softening or Rickets is a deficiency of this vitamin.
What is Vitamin D?
100
An element that is also the second most abundant mineral in the body.
What is phosphorus?
200
Water soluble vitamins, when taken in excess, usually leave the body through this route.
What is urination?
200
Fat soluble vitamins are stored here.
What is fat tissue or adipose tissue?
200
The mineral most abundant in the body
What is calcium?
200
The lack of a vitamin called niacin (B3) causes this deficiency which affects the skin causing the three Ds (dermatitis, diarrhea, and dementia) in patients.
What is pellagra?
200
An abundance of a vitamin or mineral causing health issues.
What is toxicity?
300
This water soluble vitamin is most important for pregnant women to prevent spina bifida in their offspring
What is folate or folic acid?
300
Besides fatty fish, cheese, eggs, and liver, this fat soluble vitamin can be absorbed through sunlight.
What is Vitamin D?
300
Magnesium, Calcium, and Potassium are three minerals that serve major roles in this system of the body
What is the skeletal system?
300
Berberi is caused by a lack of this water soluble vitamin
What is Vitamin B1 Thiamin?
300
Foods containing a high amount of nutrients.
What are nutrient rich or nutrient dense foods?
400
Clams contain a very high amount of this water soluble vitamin.
What is vitamin B12 cobalamin?
400
This is the recommended dosage of Vitamin A for women according to the established RDA.
What is 700 mcg?
400
Phosphorus is a concern for American nutrition because it is contained in this category of foods.
What are protein rich meat and dairy?
400
A deficiency of Folate.
What is Megaloblastic anemia?
400
These defend against free radicals that cause oxidative damage by stabilizing the charges in free radical molecules
What are antioxidants?
500
Vitamin B6 acts to metabolize protein, transport amino acids, control hemoglobin, synthesize myelin sheaths in neurotransmitters, aid in cellular immunity, and perform this important function for those with diabetes.
What is blood glucose regulation?
500
All babies are born with low levels of this fat soluble vitamin.
What is vitamin K?
500
This dried fruit has the highest density of potassium.
What are sun dried tomatoes?
500
This deficiency was experimented on by James Lind in 1747, and was caused by a lack of absorbic acid.
What is scurvy?
500
Vitamin D activates increased calcium uptake in this organ.
What are the kidneys?
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