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List 4 vitamins and/or minerals that you consumed in low amounts, and discuss the potential dangers...

  1. List 4 vitamins and/or minerals that you consumed in low amounts, and discuss the potential dangers to your health.

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List 4 vitamins and/or minerals that you consumed in low amounts, and discuss the potential dangers to your health.

vitamin A

700-900 microgram/day

helps to develop pigments for the retina.

deficiency leads to night blindness,Xerophthalmia, decrease skin integriy, dryskin, hair and nails.

Excess causes hypervitaminosis. dry and itchy skin, hair loss, loss of appetite, skin discoloration

( yellow/ orange), liver damage.

Vitamin C

60mg/day

potent antioxident, protect from infection, metabolic free radicals.

 Deficiency- scurvy( bleeding gum, easy bruising, bone fragility) weight loss, delayed wound healing, decresed skin integrity.

Vitamin D

5-10mg/day

promote calcium absorption and bone formation

 deficiency- rickets in children and osteomalacia in adults

Vitamin K

9-120microgram/day.

promotes synthesis of blood clotting

excess amount causes RBC breakdown , jaundice and hypercoagulation.

Deficieny is less common.

Nightingale answered 2 years ago
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