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Blood clotting and bone formation is the responsibility of vitamin

A) A.
B) D.
C) K.
D) E.

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Vitamin K is the "sunshine vitamin"can be made in the body with the help of ultraviolet rays from the sun.

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Which vitamins are absorbed into the portal vein?

There are no known toxicity symptoms for vitamin K.

Vitamins A and D are stored in the liver and can build up to toxic levels if taken in megadose amounts.

What is a conditionally essential nutrient?

Vitamin E is an antioxidant that protects cell membranes, functions as an anticoagulant and promotes oxidation of LDL cholesterol.

Which fat- soluble vitamin can be made in the skin?

Before buying a nutritional supplement, it is important to ask store clerks for guidance.

Which vitamins do not need to be consumed as foods because they are made in the body?

) Antioxidants, such as vitamins E and C, the mineral selenium, flavonoids, and carotenoids, ________ the damaging effects of free radicals, atoms or molecules with an unpaired electron

Which of the following nutrients requires dietary fat for absorption and is transported in the lymph system? Vitamin

What is the disadvantage of taking megadoses of fat- soluble vitamins?

Vitamins A, D, and E are _________in the body's tissues.

Inadequate intake of this vitamin can lead to blindness: vitamin

Which individuals would benefit from using nutritional supplements?

Which of the following nutrients are not stored in the body?

Research has shown that the right nutritional supplements need to be chosen to reverse aging, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and cognitive decline.

Describe the main difference between provitamins and preformed vitamins.

Children who have rickets and adults who have osteomalacia need to be consume more fortified milk, yogurt, soymilk and fatty fish.