Crossword Clues "P"
Deficiency Diseases
Best Foods
Metabolism
Synthesis, Fortification, and Supplementation
100
Type of anemia caused by vitamin B12 deficiency (10 letters)
What is Pernicious
100
Childhood disease caused by lack of vitamin D
What is Rickets
100
Category of fruits highest in vitamin C
What is Citrus
100
This organ provides the final step in the activation of vitamin D
What is Kidney
100
Two fat-soluble vitamins added to milk
What is A and D
200
Scurvy was prevented in the English by cabbage and in the Irish by _____ (8 letters)
What is Potatoes
200
Preventive measures for this disease led to the term “limeys” for British sailors
What is Scurvy
200
Meat that is the best source of thiamin
What is Pork
200
This B vitamin is critical to glucose metabolism in clients with alcoholism
What is Thiamin
200
Vitamin synthesized in the skin
What is D
300
With bleeding gums, early symptom of scurvy (9 letters)
What is Petechiae
300
Disease caused by lack of this B vitamin, formerly called vitamin B3
What is Pellagra
300
Avoidance of this food may necessitate vitamin B12 supplements
What is Meat
300
This substance binds with vitamin B12 in the proximal small intestine to protect it from digestive enzymes and intestinal bacteria
What is Intrinsic factor
300
Fat-soluble vitamin necessary for the synthesis of clotting factors that is itself synthesized in the small intestine
What is K
400
The RDAs of this vitamin specify fortified foods or supplements for women capable of becoming _____ (8 letters)
What is Pregnant
400
Lack of thiamin causes two forms of this disease, “wet” and “dry”
What is Beriberi
400
Category of vegetables high in vitamin K
What is Green leafy
400
This antioxidant vitamin provides an important pulmonary barrier against air pollution
What is Vitamin E
400
B vitamin recently added to grain products in the United States to reduce the incidence of neural tube defects
What is Folic acid
500
Symptoms are bilaterally symmetrical “glove-like” rash, diarrhea, and dementia (8 letters)
What is Pellagra
500
Two effects of vitamin A deficiency on the eye
What is Nightblindness and Xerophthalmia
500
Vegetable source of vitamin E
What is Vegetable oil
500
Overdose of this provitamin produces yellow skin but not yellow sclera
What is Carotene
500
The RDA for this B vitamin specifies fortified foods or supplements be used by _____
What is Persons 50 years of age and older
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