BIOLOGY 105 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Osteomalacia, Atherosclerosis, Oatmeal
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Foriied foods, supplements, animal products: liver, ish, eggs, dairy, sweet potatoes. Sunlight, cod liver oil, rainbow trout, chinook salmon, maitake mushrooms, Breakfast cereals, plant based oils, wheat germ, whole nuts and seeds, leafy greens. Vision and cell difereniaion, funcions as hormone, immune system, epithelial cells. Mostly afects eye: night blindness, ulcers on cornea. Bone growth and maintenance, cell development, and immunity, funcions as a hormone. Bone diseases: bowed legs, sot bones, rickets, osteomalacia. Many americans get less vitamin e than they should, but there is rarely deiciency in healthy adults, so symptoms are unclear. Anioxidant: protects cells throughout the body from the oxidaive damage that results from the exposure to free radicals produced in the body/present in the environment. Maintains healthy immune funcion by protecing white blood cells from. Hypervitaminosi s a: mostly occurs ater taking supplements of large quaniies of vitamin a. Hypervitaminosi s d likely result of supplement use rather than food.
