PHAR 100 Lecture Notes - Vitamin D Deficiency, Neural Tube Defect, Pernicious Anemia
3 Dec 2013
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When taken as a tablet in pure form are considered drugs in food no. 2 categories where vitamins are used: vitamins usual use prevention of deficiency states new area: prevention of non- nutritive diseases must be based on science. Increased tissue requirements: during growth, hard work, pregnancy, stress, disease states hyperthyroidism, fever, tissue wasting. Vitamin a and protein: kwashiorkor: nutritional approach: diet or a multivitamin to provide adequate amount, megavitamin approach. : english sailors, used to bring a barrel of limes to prevent scurvy: rdi <100 mg/day, therapeutic uses, scurvy -- well established, stress conditions add 100 to 200 mg/day. Vitamin d: was claimed rickets were a disease of temperate climates: suggested to be due to a dietary factor and by others to a lack of sunshine turns out both were right! Pro-vitamin d uv vitamin d (fish, meat, etc. )
