What factors affect the bioavailability of a mineral? Why is this significant in terms of the functionality of minerals in the body? | Homework.Study.com (2024)

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• (a) Explain the term bioavailability in reference to vitamins and minerals. (b) What factors will increase and decrease the bioavailability of a substance in the human body?
• What are the major minerals? What differentiates a major mineral from a trace mineral?
• What are essential trace minerals and why are they important?
• What are the potential benefits and drawbacks of vitamin and mineral supplementation?
• What is a mineral? Why is it important that items that use minerals be recycled?
• Where is aldosterone made? What mineral does it affect?
• Which factors might contribute to increased absorption of topical corticosteroids? Why might this be useful or detrimental?
• What are the differences between vitamins and minerals?
• Which factors may affect the extent of drug absorption? Explain the reason(s) for each.
• What is the difference between a major mineral and a trace mineral? Which minerals are the main major minerals that we need? Which are the trace minerals that we need?
• What factors may affect the rate of drug absorption?
• Choose two minerals and describe where theses minerals are found in nature and the environmental impact of extracting them from Earth.
• What is the absorption site for vitamins and minerals?
• What factors affect the absorption of groundwater into the stem of a plant?
• Discuss how drugs and nutritional supplements may affect the absorption of nutrients.
• What factors influence the requirements of Vitamin E, Vitamin B6, and Chromium?
• What are contaminant minerals and how can they affect health?
• What is the difference between mineral and organic acids?
• What are some factors that affect the energy requirement of humans?
• List and describe the factors that affect the distribution of a toxicant in the body.
• Identify two oral conditions related to nutritional factors.
• What influences the analysis of nutrient content in plants?
• Describe at least two (2) pros and two (2) cons of vitamin and mineral supplement use. Propose an argument for or against the use of vitamin and mineral supplements. Defend your position using at least one outside citation.
• What mineral is important in healing and part of metalloenzymes?
• Explain how vitamins are different from minerals, and distinguish between a fat-soluble vitamin and a water-soluble vitamin.
• (a) What are xenobiotics? (b) What are the factors on which the effects of xenobiotic compounds depend?
• Discuss the various factors that can affect energy intake.
• How do physical factors affect organisms?
• What is the DASH diet and how does it affect mineral consumption and health?
• What are the essential trace minerals?
• What considerations need to be made when deciding between either perchloric acid digestion or metaborate fusion for analysis of an ore sample?
• What are the five minerals that help in the development and maintenance of healthy bones?
• How have mineral resources had a profound impact on the history of technology and society for thousands of years?
• What are seven different items that you use in your daily life that contain or are made from minerals?
• What are the biological conditions that we need to know to determine why we can't drink seawater? For example, what is the concentration of total salts in human blood?
• Explain the importance of the water potential concepts in plant physiology. What are the major factors contributing to water potential?
• What factors should be considered when determining the protein needs of an athlete?
• What is the role of water-soluble vitamins in our body?
• Discuss the role of minerals in fluid and electrolyte balance.
• What is tetany? Which mineral is associated with it?
• What are the factors that influence muscular strength and endurance?
• List and briefly explain how intrinsic factors affect microbial growth on/in food products. Give examples.
• Why are vitamins an important part of daily nutrient intake?
• Why is coal not classified as a mineral? a. It does not occur naturally. b. It is made of organic material. c. It is not a solid. d. It has no crystal shape.
• What factors affect the potency of topical corticosteroids?
• Why are clay particles and humus important ingredients of soil?
• What are some similarities and differences between macro and micronutrients? Why is it important to understand what macro and micronutrients are and how they work in the body?
• Why is it difficult to assess trace mineral deficiencies?
• Is phosphorus a macronutrient, a micronutrient, or neither? Explain what its primary function is in plant growth and development.
• Explain how human activity is influencing the natural resources of land, water, food, minerals, and energy.
• Discuss some everyday uses for minerals
• Give arguments both for and against the use of vitamin and mineral supplements.
• What is the role of mineral salts in osmotic regulation?
• What is the main factor that determines the rate of glomerular filtration?
• List two factors that influence the hydrolysis of collagen.
• Which vitamins and minerals are of special concern to endurance athletes?
• How do scientists determine whether a plant has a mineral deficiency?
• What factors influence microbial growth?
• What is xerostomia? How would it affect nutrition?
• What are the factors that influence cardiorespiratory endurance?
• What is the role of mineral salts in the creation of electric tension (voltage) at the cellular level?
• What factors influence food choice in humans? What are some examples of foods that illustrate the interaction of factors influencing food choice?
• What determines the chemical properties of a substance?
• How do digestion disorders impact the nutritional status of an individual?
• Explain the three factors that affect the affinity of hemoglobin to oxygen.
• Discuss the various conditions that result as a consequence of deficiencies in the major minerals.
• Identify the factors that affect toxicity in a population. Pick three of the factors and provide a brief discussion on how that factor can affect the health of a population.
• What are the factors concerned with hemostasis? Explain.
• What factors regulate the output of parathyroid hormone? What are the possible effects of parathyroid dysfunction?
• Why is phosphorus an important biological molecule?
• What mineral does vitamin D control (regulate) in the body?
• List and discuss five (5) major nutritional factors of lactation.
• What factors influence the dietary decisions you make for yourself and your family? Discuss factors that influence the nutritional status of an adult, in their later years (over 65 years of age). Disc
• List the differences between water-soluble and fat-soluble vitamins, including how diet influences absorption and how preparation influences availability.
• How does the thermogenic effect of nutrients influence our bodies and develop a metabolic disorder?
• How are roots specialized in retrieving minerals from the soil?
• What role does the trace mineral iodine play in the body? What condition results from iodine deficiency? Why is this condition very rare in the United States?
• Compare the properties of minerals with those of vitamins.
• What are some environmental factors that influence the gut microbiota?
• What is one benefit that mastication has for digestion?
• What is biomagnification and why is it important in toxicology? Explain your answer and provide references, if applicable.
• Calcium absorption can be affected by many factors. Name 3 factors.
• What factors affect the direction an ion flows if it has an open channel to pass through the membrane? By what mechanisms do they affect the ion?
• What are the functions, benefits, deficiency risks, and toxicity risks of water-soluble vitamins?
• List six factors that affect the rate of osmosis.
• Taken as a group, what major role do the B vitamins play in the body? What implications does this have in regard to athletes and sport performance?
• What determines a molecule's solubility or lack of solubility in water?
• What are the factors that limit our ability to fully classify and understand microbial diversity, and what implications do these challenges have for environmental and health management?
• What is the difference between eGFR and GFR? What factors are taken into consideration when calculating both?
• Why does the DRI/RDA for B-6 take into consideration your dietary protein intake? Explain fully.
• When developing an individualized nutrition plan for an athlete, what factors must be taken into consideration?
• Name and describe the factors that affect the rate of stomach emptying.
• How do all of the additives affect the body? Are any of these used as fuel by the body?
• Is zinc a macronutrient, a micronutrient, or neither? Explain what its primary function is in plant growth and development.
• What are the two characteristics that define a vitamin?
• Is iron a macronutrient, a micronutrient, or neither? Explain what its primary function is in plant growth and development.
• Which property of water explains why powdered beverages mix with water?
• Summarize the factors that influence food choices and predict how these factors may influence a healthy diet.
• What is the major factor that affects diffusion?
• Explain the physical properties of water and how they affect the movement of water up the stem of a plant.