NUTR 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Vitamin, Vitamin A Deficiency, Cholecalciferol
19 Jul 2017
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Vitamin a deficiency: vitamin a deficiency is a threat to the health, eye sight, and lives of millions of children around the world, can be caused by insufficient intake of vitamin a, fat, protein, or zinc. Main role: works in lipid environments, unsaturated fatty acids both digestion and absorption, stored triglycerides and other fatty tissues, lipoproteins, has a function in these lipid enviornments. Did you know : some fatty acids are oxidized more easily than others can create free radicals more easily, the more unsaturated, the easier the oxidation reaction (pufas are trouble!) Pufa and give off smell when they become oxidized: frying in oil with high heat can smell bad. Where do we find vitamin e: mostly in plant oils, nut seeds and leafy green vegetables, high content in sunflower seeds and almoonds, kiwi, sunflower oil, rda for men and women is 15 mg per day. Monitored in the blood to indicate the vitamin d status.
