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Why do we care about if our patients take vitamins and minerals? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Due to rapid turnover of oral tissues, first signs of nutritional
deficiency are evident in the mouth
What area do we notice a nutritional deficiency first? second? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔1st -Glossal epithelium
2nd -Around lips
What happens if we are missing out essential nutrients? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A
decline in health may occur if it is not included in our diet
What happens to the health affect of not taking an essential vitamin or
mineral once we start taking it? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Health should normalize
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,Functional Categories of Nutrients - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-Those that provide
energy
-Those that promote growth and development
-Those that regulate body processes
Which nutrients provide energy? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Most CHOs, protein,
most lipids
Which nutrients promote growth and development? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Protein, lipids, some vitamins and minerals, water
Which nutrients regulate body processes? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Proteins, some
lipids, some vitamins and minerals, water
Vitamins are what kind of nutrients?** - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔ORGANIC nutrients
What do most vitamins serve as? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Coenzymes
T/F: Vitamins provide energy and serve as the body's building materials. - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔False, unlike CHO, protein, or fat
Most vitamins cannot be synthesized or made in sufficient amounts except
for ___________? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Vitamin D
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,How can the body assemble some vitamins? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔If raw
materials are provided
T/F: There are some foods that contain all required vitamins. - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔False
Two categories vitamins are grouped by? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-Fat soluble
-Water soluble
Which vitamins are fat soluble? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔ADEK
Where are fat soluble vitamins stored? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Liver
What do we need to help absorb fat soluble vitamins? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔To
cook it in fat - they are absorbed with dietary fats by the small intestine and
packaged in chylomicrons
Are fat soluble vitamins more or less stable in light, heat, and oxygen? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔More stable
What do we do to fat soluble vitamins if they are not needed? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔They are stored
T/F: Fat soluble vitamins can be toxic. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔True
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, What class is Vitamin A in? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Retinoids and carotenoids
Provitamin A can be received from what source? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Plant
source
Preformed vitamin a = ? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Retinol
Preformed Vitamin A is found where? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Animal sources or
fortified foods
Vitamin A functions to do what? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-Cell differentiation
(DNA/RNA synthesis)
-Bone and tooth development
-Integrity of skin and mucous membranes (increase breaking strength of
healing wounds)
-Maintenance of immune function
-Vision in dim light
What can happen if we get TOO much Vitamin A with retinol? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔-Birth defects
-Join pains
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