Purpose: Vitamins and minerals are essential to proper functioning of the body. This assignment will help you understand more fully a portion of the vitamins and minerals and the role they play.

Instructions: Imagine that you are an expert, invited to give a PowerPoint presentation to a local high school to discuss the role and contributions of vitamins and minerals to our health. Your task for this assignment is to PowerPoint presentation in preparation for this talk.

For the presentation, you should include an explanation of fat-soluble and water-soluble vitamins. You should also specifically discuss the following vitamins and minerals in your presentation:

• Vitamins: A, B1 (thiamin), B2 (riboflavin), B3 (niacin), B5 (pantothenic acid), B6 (pyridoxine), B9 (folic acid or folate), B12 (cobalamin), biotin, C, D, E and K.
• Minerals: calcium, phosphorous, magnesium, fluoride, chloride, iodine, iron, sodium, zinc
• For every vitamin and mineral, discuss:
  • basic function and benefits of the vitamin or mineral to the body
  • recommended daily amount
  • good food sources to find the vitamin or mineral
  • for vitamins, as appropriate, discuss solubility
• Pay special attention (and provide extra information) about:
  • contributions of the B-vitamins and Vitamin C
  • role of two minerals in bone health

Your final slide deck should meet the following requirements:

• Title Slide
• 12-15 content slides
  • As appropriate, consider including graphics and images
• Reference slide