Lesson 12 Lesson 12 comes from units 23, 24 and 25 of your text.

This work will be due on Monday, April 14, 2008. 1. List the minerals required by the body and provide the following for each mineral: a. functions b. deficiency symptons c. consequences of overdose d. primary food sources. 2. Explain the remodeling process of bones. 3. a. What is osteoporosis? b. what causes it? c. what are preventions, treatments, etc? d. explain why there is a higher incidence in women. e. what are the risk factors for osteoporosis? 4. How can you build and maintain dense bone? 5. Explain the role of iron in hemoglobin and myoglobin. 6. How is best way to get enough iron through diet? 7. Define: a. systolic blood pressure b. diastolic blood pressure c. what are normal rates of each? d. what are considered to be high rates of each. 8. What is hypertension? 9. Give the causes of hypertension. 10. Explain sodium's role in blood pressure. 11. What is best ways to precent, control and treat blood prressure? 12. Define dietary supplements. 13. Describe FDA regulations for dietary supplement labeling. 14. Evaluate the taking of vitamin and mineral supplements. 15. Evaulate herbal remedies. 16. How can you be sure that dietary supplements are as claimed? 17. Give a good list of considerations for the use of herbal remedies. 18. What are functional foods?

19. How are foods made to be "functional"? 20. What are prebiotics and probiotics and are they effective, etc.? 21. IS water a nutrient? 22. Gove the functions of water. 23. Give the sources of water. 24. Discuss the value of the bottle water products that are flooding the market and being snapped up by consumers. Are they better than normal water, worth the price, etc? 25.Give symptons of water deficiency. 26. Give symptons of too much water.