Question: Worldwide, vitamin A deficiency causes about ________ children to go blind each year.

Answer: 500,000

Question: Much of the vitamin E in the diet comes from ________.

Answer: Vegetable oils

Question: How does vitamin A affect bone health?

Answer: It assists enzymes that degrade certain regions of the bone, thereby allowing remodeling to occur.

Question: Which of the following accurately describes free radicals?

Answer: They arise from normal metabolic reactions

Question: What is the alcohol form of vitamin A?

Answer: Retinol

Question: Of the following, which is rapidly corrected when treated with vitamin A supplements?

Answer: Night blindness

Question:

Answer: Vitamin D-fortified milk

Question: Diseases affecting the liver or the ________ can interfere with the activation of vitamin D and produce symptoms of deficiency.

Answer: kidneys

Question: What is another name for vitamin D3?

Answer: Cholecalciferol

Question: What is the main role of vitamin K in the body?

Answer: Blood clotting