nutrition
1. What is a nutrient?
2. What is the difference
between macro and
micronutrients?
3. According to their functions
how can nutrients be
classified?
4. What are vitamins? What
arethe main vitamins needed
by humans?
5. What is the difference
between water-soluble and
fat-soluble vitamins? Why can
fat-soluble vitamins cause
harm when ingested in
excess?
6. What are the main harms
caused by vitamin A
deficiency? How does this
vitamin act in the physiology
of vision?
7. What is folic acid? Why is
the anemia caused by
deficiency of folic acid known
as megaloblastic anemia?
8. What are the vitamins
which makeup the B
complex? Which problems
does the lack of these
vitamins cause?
9. How does vitamin C act in
the body? What is the harm
caused by insufficiency of
vitamin C? Why was this
deficiency also known as
“sailors' disease”?
10. Why isn't the cooking of
vitamin C - containing foods
appropriate for vitamin C
supply?
11. What is the association
between vitamin D and
sunrays?
12. What is the disease
caused by vitamin D
deficiency? Which tissue does
it affect?
13. What is the function of
vitamin E? In which foods can
it be found?
14. Why are some types of
hemorrhagic diseases caused
by geneticor acquired
deficiency of the vitamin K
metabolism?
15. What are the functions of
biotin and pantothenic acid for
the body? How are these
vitamins obtained?
16. What are the main mineral
salts responsible for the
cellular osmotic regulation?
17. What are the main cellular
functions of potassium?
18. What are some examples
of mineral salts from the diet
that act as co-enzymes?
19. What is the disease
caused by dietary iodine
deficiency?
20. What is the importance of
iron in diet? What is the
disease caused by iron
deficiency?