[NUTR 3210] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (140 pages long)
30 Mar 2017
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Nutrient essentiality and health: nutritional status can have various impacts on health, one can have/experience, optimal nutritional status and health, nutrient deficiency and have suboptimal health, nutrient deficiency that could be lethal. Nutritional deficiency diseases: many nutritional deficiency diseases are caused by diets low in an essential nutrient if deficiency lasts for long time, they will cause a suboptimal or lethal health outcome i. e. deficiency in: Iron/folate/ vitamin b12 can cause anemia low circulating red blood cell volume decreases o2 transport, triggers fatigue important at key developmental stages (i. e. pregnancy and infancy: decreases growth, impairs cognitive development, vitamin d can cause rickets (osteomalacia) Unit 1 notes: thus, ecm plays a huge role in organization our epithelial layers and other tissues. Nutrient deficiency ripple effect: a cascade of events can develop once a deficiency is sustained in an organism, for example, the compromised integrity of the ecm can develop health complications.
