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What are the fat soluble vitamins?

A

Vitamins

A, D, E, K

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what are the water soluble vitamins?

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Vitamin B

&

Vitamin C

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What are the major minerals?

A 
Sodium
Potassium
Phosphorus
Chloride
Calcium
Manganese
Sulfur
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How much of the major minerals are needed per day and how much is stored?

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> 100 mg per day

Store >5 g

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What are the trace minerals?

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Iron
Selenium
Fluoride
Chromium
Manganese
Zinc
Copper
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How much of the trace minerals are needed per day and how much is stored?

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< 100 g per day

Store < 5 g

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6
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What is chromium associated with?

What is it

A

Glucose

A trace mineral

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7
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What is iodine associated with and responsible for?

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Components of thyroid hormone

Those hormones regulate body temp and metabolism

A lack of it can cause goiter (enlarged thyroid)
Can cause Graves’ disease (bulging eyes)

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What is manganese apart of?

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Superoxide dismutase

Powerful Anita oxidant that protects us from free radical damage

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What is the coenzyme for THIAMIN?

A

TPP

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What is the coenzyme for RIBOFLAVIN?

A

FAD

FMN

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What is the coenzyme for NICAN.

A

NAD

NADP

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What is the coenzyme for VIT. B6

A

PLP

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What is the coenzyme for FOLATE?

A

THF

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What is the coenzyme for PANOTHENIC ACID?

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CoA

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What dose the coir cycle do?

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Converts execs lactic acids in the body to glucose.

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What dose VIT.A do?

A

Allow us to see color

17
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What dose VIT.D do?

A

Regulates blood calcium

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What dose VIT. E do?

A

Protects cell membrane/ improves VIT. Absorption

19
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What dose VIT. K do?

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Aids in blood coagulation.

20
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What is phosphorylation?

A

When B. VIT are combined with other substances

21
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What dose a deficiency in VIT. B12 and folate cause?

A

Anemia

22
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What is choline?

A

Vitamin like substance

Involved in phosphotidylcholine or lecithin

Not a VIT just aids them

23
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What are B.vit particularly important for?

A

Assisting in energy metabolism

They act as coenzymes

24
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Where is most of the phosphorus found in our body stored?

A

Our bones

25
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What are sodium and potassium important to?

A

Nerve impulses

26
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How do we get fluid in our body?

A

Beverages and food

Metabolic reaction 10-14% of our daily water

Oxidative metabolism

27
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How dose water move through the body?

A

By osmosis

High to low

28
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What dose osmotic pressure do?

A

Keeps electrolytes from drawing liquid toward them

29
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What is the cycle of electrolytes?

A

Depolarization
Action potential
Repolarization

30
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What tells us we are thirsty?

A

The hypothalamus

31
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What is potassium associate with?

A

The relaxation of the muscle contraction cycle

Causes healthy heart

32
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What is chloride?

What is it involved in and what dose it do?

A

A major mineral

It’s in extra cellular fluid

Assist in the immune system and transmission of nerve impulses

33
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What is phosphorus?

A

A major mineral

34
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What is the result of a thiamin deficiency?

A

Berriberri

Muscle wasting

35
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What is the result of a niacin deficiency?

A

Pellegra

36
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What is a deficiency in folate cause?

A

Neural tube defects in fetuses

Anemia

Heart disease

37
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What is a VIT b12 deficiency?

A

It is RARE!!!!

But anemia

38
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What is a PANOTHENIC acid deficiency?

A

Very rare

It’s absolutely essential for fatty acid metabolism

Main enzyme is CoA

39
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What dose chromium do and what is it?

A

Assists insulin in glucose uptake

Is a minor mineral

Dose not effect body composition

40
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What is sulfur?

A

Major mineral

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