Title: Unit 3 Lessons
Course: Human Nutrition and Dietetics > Section: UNIT 3: NUTRIENTS- MICRONUTRIENTS (VITAMINS)

This week/unit, you will learn about micronutrients, specifically vitamins.  You will be given questions to guide your reading.

In your face-to-face session, you will watch a video and thereafter join the interactive discussion in class.

LEARNING RESOURCES & ACTIVITIES

1. Read the lecture notes on Nutrients and their sources before the lecture and answer the following questions:

- What are the food sources of vitamins?
- What is the implication of having excess vitamins?
- What are the health implications of lack of vitamins? Summarize this for your reading.

2. Watch the video on micronutrients- vitamins.

TASK 3.1: CASE STUDY

A 32-year-old body builder has decided to go on diet consisting of egg whites to ensure only proteins for muscle growth, after a few weeks, he experienced decreased energy and is found hypoglycaemic. A nutritionist tells the patient that he most likely has a vitamin deficiency.

a. Suggest the vitamin deficiency associated with consumption of raw eggs?

b. Give a brief account of how the deficiency occurs?

c. List any two food sources for the above vitamin.

Additional Resources on different types of vitamins (Click on the links to access)

- Macronutrients, Micronutrients and Water: Macronutrient Structure And Function
- Micronutrients in health and disease (Slideshare ppt)
- Fat soluble vitamins (Slideshare ppt)
- Nutrients and their Sources