What food is favored by the Pennsylvania Dutch and is actually ...

[Melani1276]

What food is favored by the Pennsylvania Dutch and is actually called Mennonite pod peas?
 a. green peas
  b. soybeans
 c. snow peas
  d. split peas
 e. sugar peas

Question 2

Identify three ways vitamin D helps to maintain blood concentrations of calcium and phosphorus.

[Qarqy]

Answer to Question 1

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Answer to Question 2

Vitamin D's special role in bone health is to assist in the absorption of calcium and phosphorus, thus helping to maintain blood concentrations of these minerals. The bones grow denser and stronger as they absorb and deposit these minerals.
Vitamin D raises blood concentrations of bone minerals in three ways. When the diet is sufficient, vitamin D enhances their absorption from the GI tract. When the diet is insufficient, vitamin D provides the needed minerals from other sources: reabsorption by the kidneys and mobilization from the bones into the blood. The vitamin may work alone, as it does in the GI tract, or in combination with parathyroid hormone, as it does in the bones and kidneys.

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