HNF 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Rickets, Macrocytic Anemia, Dementia

• School: MSU
• Department: Human Nutrition and Foods
• Course: HNF 150
• Professor: Ekstrom

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Sizer chapter 7; or byrd-b chapter 12 and 13; check really helpful. Learning objectives: recognize/list the fat soluble and water soluble vitamins, and compare and contrast how the solubility affects the absorption, transport, storage, toxicity, and excretion of each type. For these factors, know the generalities for fat versus water soluble vitamins, not specifics for each vitamin. Absorbed similar to fat by micelles in small intestine (bile) Packaged for transport through lymphatic system and carried by chylomicrons. Toxicity is mainly from high dose supplements, rarely from food. (vitamin a, vitamin d, vitamin e, and vitamin k) Portal vein liver then sent to bloodstream. (b vitamins [thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, folate, b12, and b6], Vitamin c: recall how vitamin recommendations are determined. By finding out how much of a nutrient a healthy individual needs: Reviewing scientific studies (including balance studies: for each of the following vitamins -- d, k, a, e, c, thiamin, riboflavin, niacin,