Make a fact sheet

Question

Ideas for Fact Sheets: https://www.nutrition.gov/basic-nutrition/printable-materials-and-handouts

Be sure to review for scholarly research and government websites for information about your micronutrient. Start here: https://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic

The "Fact Sheet" must answer each all of the following: for vitamin a

1. What is the name of your micronutrient?
2. How is it involved with health and disease?
3. What are the DRIs for adolescents, adults, and older adults? Be sure to cite all four reference values:
4. Estimated Average Requirements (EAR);
5. Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA);
6. Adequate Intakes (AI);
7. Tolerable Upper Intake Levels (UL).
8. What happens if you are too low or too high in that micronutrient?
9. What are good food sources for that nutrient?

for vitamin a

Answer 1

1. What is the name of your micronutrient?
2. Vitamin A (also called retinol: the most active form of Vitamin A in the body)
3. How is it involved with health and disease?
4. necessary for the producton and development of epithelial cells lining the body's tissues
5. regulates the activity of the immune system
6. aids in bone growth and development
7. aids in ocular health and vision
8. What are the DRIs for adolescents, adults, and older adults? Be sure to cite all four reference values:
9. Estimated Average Requirements (EAR); 700-900mcg RAE (retinol activity equivalents)
10. Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA); 700-900mcg RAE
11. Adequate Intakes (AI); 700-900mcg RAE
12. Tolerable Upper Intake Levels (UL).3,000mcg RAE
13. What happens if you are too low or too high in that micronutrient?
14. Deficiency: can lead to blindness, increase the risk of infections
15. Symptoms include night blindness, dry skin, and frequent infections
16. Excess: risky as vitamin A is fat-soluble and cannot be flushed out in urination like water-soluble vitamins;
17. Acute toxicity: rash, abdominal pain, increased intracranial pressure, and vomiting
18. Chronic toxicity: rash, increased intracranial pressure, sparse and coarse hair, dry and rough skin, joint stiffness, increased risk of bone fractures
19. What are good food sources for that nutrient?
20. Animal products such as eggs, liver, butter, fish, liver oils
21. foods high in beta-carotene can be converted to vitamin A (carrots, spinach, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, broccoli, mangoes, cantolope)