A. What important role does vitamin K play with physically active humans?
1. __________________________________________________________________________.B. Why is vitamin D added to dairy products and how is it used by the body?
2. __________________________________________________________________________.
3. __________________________________________________________________________.C. Vitamins and minerals are critical to the maintenance of normal body function and good health. If
the intake of a little bit of vitamins is essential, is it necessarily true then that the consumption of a
lot is even better? Support your answer.
4. ____________. _____________________________________________________________.D. How are calcium and iron used within the human body? List a few foods that are known to be rich
in calcium and a few that are known to be rich in iron.
5. Calcium: __________________________________________________________________.
_________________________, _________________________, ________________________.
6. Iron: ______________________________________________________________________
_________________________, _________________________, ________________________.E. Even without adding salt to your food, approximately how much salt is it estimated that you take in
each day?
7. ____________________________________.F. Why does dehydration accelerate the rate of fatigue?
8. __________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________.G. List four things that you can tell a firefighter or college athlete to do in an effort to rapidly rehydrate
during recovery from intense work or competition?
9. ____________________________________ _____________________________________
____________________________________ & _____________________________________.H. What is the easiest way to assess your state of hydration?