Exam 12: The Major Minerals and Water

How are minerals classified, and what common characteristics do major minerals share?

Water insufficiency is called dehydration

Which vitamin enables bone-building proteins to bind to calcium?

All people with hypertension benefit from a low-salt diet

Seafood, legumes, and nuts are primary sources of:

Use the following case study to answer questions These questions require comprehension of various sections of the chapter to answer, but are placed together here to keep them together with the case study.Specifically, questions 42-43 test on "What causes osteoporosis?" and 44-50 test on "Are you at risk?" Case Study: Yun Jung is a 56-year-old postmenopausal fashion designer from Korea.She is visiting the U.S.for the first time and is having a bit of a challenge adjusting to the food available.She admits she is not very active but does try to eat healthy.She has always been thin and is currently 5' tall and weighs 95 lbs.Her diet typically consists mostly of rice, lots of vegetables (except she doesn't like spinach or greens), soy, a little fish, and lots of tea.She is not lactose intolerant.On a sight-seeing trip, she twisted her left ankle and fell.She was taken to the emergency room and was shocked to find that she had fractured her left fibula.The x-ray confirmed type 1 osteoporosis. -Based on Yun Jung's usual intake, which vitamin would also be expected to be inadequate and important to increase in the diet along with calcium?

Which mineral is a component of stomach acid?

What percentage of bone loss in women has been reported to occur each year after menopause?

Why, if 99% of the calcium in the body is in bones and teeth, are there such elaborate mechanisms to regulate the 1% of calcium that is in the blood?

What does the recent research show about the benefits of consuming high amounts of low-fat dairy products?

Which organs regulate, either individually or collectively, the amount of each major mineral in the body?

Now that he is a college student, Myungsoo's diet doesn't contain much calcium How does his body maintain healthy blood calcium levels?

How does bottled water compare to tap water?

What is the name given to the serious calcium deficiency that causes muscles to tighten and become unable to relax?

When the actions of the osteoblasts exceed those of the osteoclasts, what is occurring?

Osteoblasts are involved in bone formation

Bone mass increases until it reaches its peak at roughly what age?

In addition to nuts, dairy products, seafood, legumes, and brown rice, what else is a good source of magnesium?

By definition, a major or macromineral is one that is required in amounts greater than how much each day?

Unfortunately, Nicole has kidney disease Her blood levels of which minerals are likely to be disrupted because her kidneys cannot regulate their levels in her blood as they normally would?