Lecture #24 - Vitamins

Question 1

Vitamins characteristics

List 6 characteristics:

1. What is their name derived from?
2. Three words to deserve them in general (_____ based) - can they be broken down? How?
3. Do they provide energy?
4. If absent or low in diet, symptoms of what appear?
5. Required in ______ ______
6. What is bioavailability?

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Question 2

What are the 4 fat soluble vitamins and what are the 2 water soluble ones?

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Question 3

Minerals characteristics

1. What are two words to describe them? How does this differ from vitamins?
2. Do they provide energy? Can they be broken down?
3. Required in _____ ____
4. What is bioavailability

What is the difference in minerals and trace elements?

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Question 4

How do we know if we get enough vitamins and minerals from the food we eat?

Four ways:

1. What is it?
   - look for what specifically?
2. A_____ (____ balance/_____)
   - look at what and how does this differ for adults vs kids
3. What tests now?
   - measure what and then do what?
4. What assessment?
   - three steps for this

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Question 5

What is fortification?

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Question 6

What is the role of vitamins and minerals (4 key ones)

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Question 7

What’s the real big function of Vitamin Bs?

What vitamins are FAD, NAD and CoA derived from?

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Question 8

What does an antioxidant do and which vitamins are antioxidants?

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Question 9

Thiamin deficiency:

1. What co-enzyme is it part of and what roles does this coenzyme have?
2. What 4 things can occur if you have deficiency of thiamin and what are the two diseases called?

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Question 10

Wernicke-Korsakoff:

• who does it affect heaps and why?
• so what action was taken to increase thiamine?

Beriberi:

• affected who and why?
• how did they improve their situation?

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