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karen

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Why might someone who eats a diet that contains inadequate amounts of niacin and riboflavin experience fatigue and feel tired?

Question 2

Farmer McDonald allows volunteers from a local organization to collect any produce that gets left behind during harvest from his fields. These volunteers are participating in:
 a. gleaning.
  b. perishable food rescue.
  c. nonperishable food collection.
  d. backyard harvest.



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Answer to Question 1

Without sufficient niacin and riboflavin from the diet the body will not have the coenzymes essential to the operation of the electron transport chain, which produces about 90 of the body's ATP.

Answer to Question 2

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