What can be done to help the body absorb more iron?

Question 1 What can be done to help the body absorb more iron?

Question 2 What is bioavailability?

Question 3 Choose one B vitamin.  Describe in your own words the symptoms of the deficiency of that vitamin and which foods you’d recommend adding to a diet to prevent those symptoms.

Question 4 What are the two main classes of minerals and what determines which class a mineral is assigned?

Question 5 When water moves from inside the cell to outside the cell it does so by which process?

Question 6 For each fat soluble vitamin, provide the following information:

the common forms of the vitamin, whether or not the body can produce the vitamin, what the vitamin does within the body, what are the results of a deficiency of the vitamin, whether or not an overabundance of the vitamin may be harmful, and what foods are rich in the vitamin?

Question 7 List the four major functions of Vitamin C

Question 8 It is important for women who may be pregnant or who are planning on becoming pregnant to discuss their folate intake with their doctor.  Why or why not?

Question 9 When water is inside of a cell it is part of the    fluid.

Question 10 This vitamin can be produced by the body:

Question 11 What are the eight B vitamins?

Question 12 Choose two minerals, one from each major class.  Describe the symptoms of a deficiency in the mineral and suggest a way in which the deficiency may be avoided.

Question 13 Name and describe the two major types of iron.  Which is more easily absorbed by the body?

Question 14 What two hormones help prevent dehydration and how do they function?

Question 15 Night blindness is an early sign of a deficiency of this vitamin: ________

Question 16 Plant pigments that play an important role in preventing cardiovascular disease: _________.

Question 17 What six ions are listed as being responsible for your body’s water balance?

Question 18An antioxidant found in cell membranes that decreases the risk for cancer and cell damage is _________.

Question 19 When water is outside of a cell it is part of the    fluid.