Expectations, Goals and Objectives for week #10 (Mon, March 27th - Sun., April 2nd)

Describe the properties of the fat-soluble vitamins
Identify excellent dietary sources of the fat-soluble vitamins
Demonstrate how the various forms of vitamin A can be converted from one to the other
Describe the role of vitamin A in healthy vision
List sources of free radicals, and describe how antioxidants can defend against oxidative damage to cells and tissues
Describe the role of vitamin D in blood calcium regulation
Explain how vitamin E works as an antioxidant in the cell membrane
Describe the possible causes of vitamin deficiencies
Describe the role of vitamins as coenzymes
List two excellent food sources for each of the water-soluble vitamins
Identify the vitamin deficiencies that cause megaloblastic anemia, and explain how this anemia occurs
Identify vitamins that have neurological functions; act as an antioxidant; or are involved in energy metabolism, red blood cell production, and DNA and RNA synthesis

This weeks reading assignment

Spotlight C: Plant-Based Diets

Pass the Plants, Please: What does a Spanish study say about the benefits of following a Mediterranean-like diet?

Located in your e-book Here

Study Guides (work on these study guides for the third test)

(Module 10.19)
Study Guide (Chapter 7)
"Fat-Soluble Vitamins" 📄➡
Here

(Module 10.20)
Study Guide (Chapter 8)
"Water-Soluble Vitamins" 📄➡
Here

Please don't forget that you can work together on the study guides by clicking on ConferZoom to the left and entering that room each and every day from 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Work together. It saves time and helps a lot while searching for answers to some of the study guide questions.

Assignments due this week

(Module 10.10) Due by Sun., April 2, 11:59 p.m.
Video and Quiz #4
(20 points)
"How to slow aging and even reverse it"
Watch the Video➡ Here

(Module 10.15) Due by Sun., April 2, 11:59 p.m.
Graded Discussion
(25 points)
What you have learned so far?
Start the Discussion➡ Here

Optional: (Module 10.18) Due by Sun., April 2, 11:59 p.m.
Midway Course Feedback Survey
(10 bonus points)
Start the Survey➡ Here

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