Essential Table Stuff

Question 1

Calcium (3, 3, 2)

Answer 1

Dairy foods, beans, and cabbage; constituent of bones and enamel, required for muscle contraction, clotting of blood; rickets and poor skeletal growth

Question 2

Sodium (1, 1, 2)

Answer 2

Table salt; regulates acid-base equilibrium; muscular cramps and nerve impulses do not get transmitted

Question 3

Potassium (3, 3, 1)

Answer 3

Banana, potato, and citrus fruits; nerve and muscle activity, fluid balance, secretion of neurotransmitter (acetylcholine); nerve impulses do not get transmitted

Question 4

Phosphorous (6, 7, 1)

Answer 4

Dairy products, cereals, beans, nuts, meat, and egg; synthesis of nucleic acid, ATP, NADP, bones, enamel, for muscle contraction, and conduction of nerve impulse; soft bones

Question 5

Magnesium (5, 2, 1)

Answer 5

Vegetables, whole grain, nuts, sea food, and meat; bone and tooth structure and synthesis of enzymes; increased irritability of nervous system

Question 6

Sulphur (6, 1, 1)

Answer 6

Dairy products, onion, garlic, radish, meat, and egg; component of protein and co-enzymes; skin problems

Question 7

Chlorine (1, 2, 1)

Answer 7

Table salt; water balance and secretion of HCl in gastric juice; muscular cramps

Question 8

Vitamin A (aka, 8, 3, 2)

Answer 8

Retinol; butter, egg yolk, liver, milk, carrots, leafy green vegetables, yellow fruits, fish liver oils; promotes growth, resists infection of the skin and mucous membrane, component of visual purple in the retinal cells of the eyes for perception of image; night blindness and xerophthalmia

Question 9

Night blindness

Answer 9

Poor vision in dim light

Question 10

Xerophthalmia

Answer 10

Dryness of the cornea and ulceration

Question 11

Vitamin D (aka, 4, 1, 2)

Answer 11

Calciferol; fish liver oils, milk, eggs– produced by UV rays in skin; helps body to use calcium and phosphorus to form teeth and bones; rickets in children and osteomalcia in adults

Question 12

Vitamin E (aka, 3, 1, 3)

Answer 12

Tocopherol; meat, milk, whole wheat; prevents oxidation of vitamin A; muscle weakness , nerve damage, immune system problems

Question 13

Vitamin K (aka, 4, 1, 1)

Answer 13

Phylloquinone; leafy green vegetables, especially cabbage and spinach– also synthesized in intestines; needed in clotting of blood; haemorrhage

Question 14

Haemorrhage

Answer 14

Delay in clotting time

Question 15

Rickets

Answer 15

Bones lack calcium and turn soft