Each of you will take a closer look at a vitamin or mineral discussed from the Week #5 learning resources.

In your primary post you should 1) provide an overview of this nutrient for your classmates. 2) Include an explanation of the functions/roles your nutrient plays in the body, 3) dietary sources of the nutrient and 4) something you did not know before about this nutrient or that would be most useful for your classmates to know. Please use the learning materials (online textbook or two links provided from OSU ) as your

references.If your nutrient is not well covered in the learning materials please use a reputable source to reference, such as nih.gov–they have nutrient fact sheets for health professionals.

In addition to general comments and questions, I encourage you to dig deeper and provide additional information about the nutrient for which you are responding to, that are not included in the ooriginal post (for example, what diseases are associated with deficiency of the nutrient, or what effects toxicity of that nutrient can have on the body.