Nutrition

at a Glance

Sangita Sharma

Multiple Choice: Chapter 23 Micronutrients: Protective and defence roles I

Question 1. Which one of the following statements is incorrect?

A Vitamin A deficiency is associated with increased severity of respiratory and diarrhoeal diseases and measles
B Vitamin C supplementation reduces the risk of the common cold
C Immune system defences include the killing of invading organisms by a burst of superoxide radicals
D In animal studies, viruses passing through selenium-deficient hosts may mutate to more virulent forms