KINE 4020 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Vitamin B6, Iodised Salt, Tetrahydrofolic Acid
27 May 2014
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= science majors: as this chapter presents an overview of vitamins and their functions, the health care practitioner will be interested in this basic information so that their patients can be better educated on the myths and truths regarding vitamin supplementation, with respect to vitamin bioavailability (i. e. , the extent to which ingested vitamins are absorbed by the body out of the digestive tract), scientists have analyzed various food sources and published the bioavailability of the contained vitamins in tables for convenient reference, there is some research to support the finding that vitamin b supplementation (folate, vitamin b6, and vitamin b12) lowers circulating levels of homocysteine and reduces the risk of heart disease. W h y s h o u l d s t u d e n t s c a r e : the b vitamins facilitate the work of every cell.
