Please use the name of your assigned nutrient as the title of your post!

Each of you will take a closer look at a vitamin or mineral discussed from the Week #5 learning resources. Your nutrient has been assigned to you and can be found in the Discussion Week 5 pdf document under Content. Your primary post should be a minimum of 12 sentences in length and should be posted by Thursday 11:59 pm EST.

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 credible source to reference, such as nih.gov – they have nutrient fact sheets for health professionals.

Response posts to two of your classmate’s posts for Week #5 are due by Sunday 11:59pm EST. 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 original post (for example, what diseases are associated with deficiency of the nutrient, or what effects toxicity of that nutrient can have on the body).

As a reminder, please paraphrase information from your sources. Credit will not be given to students who copy word for word from the resources. You will still need to cite your references as appropriate using APA format (this is part of your grade).