Vitamins Nutrition Flashcards

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Vitamin A

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Function: helps form and maintain healthy teeth, skeletal and soft tissue, mucus membranes, and skin.
Source: cod liver oil, eggs
Deficiency: night blindness, inflamed skin
Excess: dizziness, nausea

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Vitamin D

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Function: Absorb calcium
Source: the sun
Excess : buildup of calcium in your blood (hypercalcemia), which can cause nausea and vomiting, weakness, and frequent
Deficiency: bone loss, osteopenia, osteomalacia, osteoporosis,

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Vitamin E

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Function: protects body tissue from damage caused by substances called free radical
Source: almonds, peanuts and hazelnuts, and vegetable oils,
Deficiency: disorientation and vision problems
Excess: High doses can also cause nausea, diarrhea, stomach cramps, fatigue

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Vitamin K

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Function: The body needs vitamin K to produce prothrombin
Source: green leafy vegetables, fish
Deficiency: excessive bleeding caused by an inability to form blood clots
Excess: kidney disease. Liver disease

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Vitamin C

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Function: growth, development and repair of all body tissues
Source: citrus fruits, broccoli
Deficiency: scurvy
Excess:diarrhoea, nausea

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Vitamin B1

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Function: helps the body’s cells change carbohydrates into energy
Source: beef, nuts, oats
Deficiency: beriberi, a condition that features problems with the peripheral nerves and wasting
Excess: diarrhoea

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Vitamin B2

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Function: break down proteins, fats, and carbohydrates.
Source: Meat, fish, and dairy
Deficiency: ariboflavinosis
Excess: liver damage

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Vitamin B3

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Function: food into glucose
Source: yeast, meat, poultry, red fish
Deficiency: inflammation of the skin
Excess: nausea

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Vitamin B9

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Function: produce energy
Source: fortified cereal
Deficiency: deficiency anaemia occurs when a lack of vitamin B12 or folate causes the body to produce abnormally large red blood cells that cannot function properly
Excess: You can’t get too much folate. However, it’s possible to take too much folic acid, the manmade form found in supplements and fortified foods.

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Vitamin B12

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Function: build proteins
Source: dairy products, fish

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Calcium

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Function:building strong bones and teeth
Source: milk, dairy products
Deficiency: osteoporosis
Excess:kidney stones

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Iron

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Function: produce haemoglobin
Source: Chicken, duck, pork, turkey, eggs and fish
Deficiency: anemia
Excess: liver disease, heart problems and diabetes.

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Sodium

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Function: maintaining blood volume and blood pressure by attracting and holding water.
Source: Smoked, cured, salted or canned meat
Deficiency: kidney or congestive heart failure
Excess: increase your risk for high blood pressure, stroke, and heart failure

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Fluoride

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Function: help prevent tooth decay
Source: some tap waters rom the uk
Deficiency: very occasionally lead to osteoporosis
Excess: skeletal fluorosis

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Iodine

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Function: to make thyroid hormones
Source: mineral found in some foods
Deficiency: developmental delays
Excess: goiter (an enlarged thyroid gland). High iodine intakes can also cause thyroid gland inflammation and thyroid cancer

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Phosphorus

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Function: formation of bones and teeth
Source: milk and milk products and meat and alternatives
Deficiency: fatigue, change in body weight
Excess: diarrhoea