Vitamins

List four reasons why vitamins are important in our diet.

Our bodies can produce a sufficient amount of all the vitamins we need.

• true

• false

How many essential vitamins are there?

• 4

• 9

• 13

• 6

Complete the sentence.

We get vitamins in our diet by ____ and ____ .

Vitamin toxicity or hypervitaminosis normally occurs when...

• people eat too many foods containing lots of vitamins

• people don't eat enough nutritious food

• people take too many vitamins in the form of supplements

• people take vitamins and prescription medications together

Which type of vitamins get stored in the body?

• fat-soluble vitamins

• water-soluble vitamins

Extra of these types of vitamins get eliminated from the body.

• fat-soluble vitamins

• water-soluble vitamins

The vitamin B complex, and vitamin C are all...

• fat-soluble vitamins

• water-soluble vitamins

List the fat-soluble vitamins.

This vitamin is good for your vision, your immune system, protein synthesis, and bone health

• Vitamin E

• Vitamin K

• Vitamin A

• Vitamin D