Fat Soluble Vitamins

Question 1

‘osteomalacia’ is a deficiency disease of what vitamin?

Answer 1

Vitamin D (cholecalciferol)

Question 2

Seeds/nuts and plant oils are a good sources of what vitamin?

Answer 2

Vitamin E or more specifically α-tocopherol

Question 3

What is Active vitamin D called?

Answer 3

Calcitriol

Question 4

Deficiency causes hemolytic anemia

Answer 4

α-tocopherol or vitamin E

Question 5

Deficiency causes night blindness

Answer 5

Retinal (Vitamin A)

Question 6

Toxicity involves skin rash, enlarged liver, increased

risk bone fractures

Answer 6

β-carotene (Vitamin A)

Question 7

Not found in any food

Answer 7

calcitriol

7-dehydrocholesterol

Question 8

Found in green leafy veggies, works with Vitamin D for calcium absorption from the GI tract

Answer 8

phylloquinone (Vitamin K1)

Question 9

Some of our needs met by colonic microbial synthesis

Answer 9

menaquinone (Vitamin K2)

Question 10

What vitamin will help with Blood clotting?

Answer 10

Vitamin K

Question 11

Good Source of Carotenoids?

Answer 11

Plants

Question 12

Good Source for Retinoids?

Answer 12

Animals

Question 13

Scurvy is a disease cause by what Deficiency?

Answer 13

Vitamin D

Question 14

Good Source for D2

Answer 14

Sun Dried plants

Question 15

Good Source for D3

Answer 15

Fish, eggs, liver, milk, margarine

Question 16

Hard Ca deposits in soft tissues: Kidney, Heart, Lungs, Blood Vessels, and Kidney Stones are symptoms of the toxicity of what vitamin?

Answer 16

Vitamin D

Question 17

Rickets is a disease in children caused by what deficiency?

Answer 17

Vitamin D

Question 18

Widening region of bone growth, bend of bones in legs

Answer 18

Rickets

Question 19

Osteoporosis is caused by the lack of what?

Answer 19

Dietary Calcium

Question 20

What occurs during the absorption of Vitamin D?

Answer 20

Ergocalciferol –> Absorbed in GI tract by chylomicron –> Vitamin D-D binding protein carries through bloodstream –> Stops at Liver to pick up OH group –> Stops at Kidney for final activation stage of vitamin D (Calcitriol)

Question 21

What are the functions of Vitamin D?

Answer 21

• Stimulate calcium absorption
• Draw Calcium from bones (short term responce to increase blood Ca levels)
• Reduce Ca loss

Question 22

How is Vitamin E absorbed?

Answer 22

Absorbed from DI tract with fatty acids –> chylomicron –> Vitamin E Transported + Distributed in body

Question 23

Specific roles of Vitamin E?

Answer 23

• Free radicals – environment, normal reactions: respiration – part of immune system, produced naturally during LIVER detox

Question 24

Damage to membranes of body cells is called what?

Answer 24

Hemolytic anemia

Question 25

What are some functions of Vitamin K?

Answer 25

Blood Clotting
Bone Metabolism
Kidney Function
Ca Absorption

Question 26

How is Vitamin K Absorbed?

Answer 26

Chylomicron –> Deliver vitamin K to all body tissues

Question 27

What are some functions of Vitamin C?

Answer 27

• Antioxidant
• Creation of steroid hormones
• Synthesis of bile acids
• Enhances absorption of Fe, Ca