Exam 7: The Vitamins

Healthy people can eat vitamin A-rich foods in large amounts without risking toxicity, with the possible exception of which of the following foods?

Which two vitamins are widespread in food and deficiencies would be rare?

For which group of people would vitamin C supplements cause adverse effects?

The amount of vitamin A that a person needs is dependent upon what factor?

Which food provides a significant quantity of vitamin E?

Which food would you recommend to someone who needs to increase intake of thiamin?

Health Canada recommends that all exclusively breastfed healthy term infants in Canada receive a daily supplement of which vitamin?

What vitamin participates in over 100 reactions in body tissues and is needed to help convert one kind of amino acid, which cells have in abundance, to other nonessential amino acids that cells lack?

The B vitamins act as part of what molecule?

Which vitamin aids in the conversion of tryptophan to niacin?

According to researchers, which vitamin has a positive effect on the immune system?

Explain where in the body Vitamin D acts to raise the blood calcium levels and how that is achieved.

Pellagra results from a deficiency of which vitamin?

For healthy women, the Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI) committee recommends how many milligrams per day of vitamin C?

For a healthy man, an adequate daily intake of vitamin A averages around how many micrograms?

Which B vitamin is especially important for women of childbearing age to reduce the risk for neural tube defects?

Compare and contrast the characteristics of the water-soluble vitamins and the fat-soluble vitamins.

What is the main function of vitamin K in the body?

Vitamin C supplements will prevent the common cold.

Which supplement is considered hazardous to the body of individuals who smoke?