Answer:
a. What should she look for to help her evaluate the supplements?
She should look out for the Recommended Dietary Allowance of each Vitamins or nutrients that is present in the supplements she wants to take.
b. If Felicia took 2 caplets per day, the recommended dose, is she likely to encounter any problems?
Yes she is likely to encounter problems.
c. If so, what problems might she encounter and which nutrients may cause them? The problems she is likely to encounter is taking more than the required amount of nutrients she is meant to take daily.
Those nutrients that would cause her problems are:
a. Vitamin C
b. Vitamin E
c. Niacin
d. Vitamin B6
Explanation:
RDA can be defined as the recommended dietary allowance of a particular nutrient of vitamin present in a food or supplement. It puts a limit to the consumption of a particular nutrient in other to prevent toxicity or harmful side effects of such nutrients.
For Felicia, there are some of the vitamins present in her supplement would cause her problems because the level of vitamins in her supplement have exceeded her Recommended Dietary Allowance.
Those vitamins and the problems that they cause are:
a. Vitamin C: The recommended dietary allowance for vitamins C for women is given as 75mg per day and Felicia's supplements contain 200mg. The problems that could arise from this includes Felicia feeling more tired, her gums would be swollen and they would start to bleed, if she has any injuries, they won't heal properly.
b. Vitamin E: The Recommended Dietary Intake for Vitamins E in Adults is 15mg (22.4 IU). Felicia's supplements contains 30IU and has exceeded the limits. The problems this could cause is fatigue, bleeding, headaches, nausea.
c. Niacin: The Recommended Dietary Allowance for Niacin is 14mg for adult females. Felicia's supplements consists of 50mg which as exceeded the limits. The problems this can cause for Felicia includes liver damages, the color of her skin would be flushed and presence of rashes on her skin.
d. Vitamin B6 : Felicia's supplements contains 150mg of Vitamin B6 and this has exceeded the limit for adults. The upper limit for adults is 100mg. This would result in serious damages to her nerves, she would also experience feelings of nausea as well.
