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Many diseases in humans are thought to be directly or indirectly related to nutrition, These include, but are not limited to, 'deficiency diseases', caused by a lack of essential nutrients.
Additionally, several diseases are directly or indirectly impacted by dietary habits, and require very close attention to the nutrient content of food.

Contents

Overnutrition (eating too much)

Vitamins

Microminerals and Macrominerals

Deficiencies (eating too little)

Proteins/fats/carbohydrates

Vitamin

Microminerals and Macrominerals

References

See also

Overnutrition (eating too much)

Vitamins

★ Vitamin poisoning

Microminerals and Macrominerals

★ Iron overload disorder

Deficiencies (eating too little)

Proteins/fats/carbohydrates

★ protein-energy malnutrition

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★ kwashiorkor

★
★ marasmus

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★ Mental retardation ^[1]

Vitamin

''Also see Avitaminosis, and table of deficiency diseases at human vitamins''

★ beriberi

★ rickets

★ scurvy

★ pellagra

★ poor immune system function, potentially leading to a wide range of other illnesses.
- night blindness
- dry skin
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Microminerals and Macrominerals

★ metabolic or nutritionally related disease such as diabetes mellitus or endemic goitre

★ zinc deficiency (growth retardation)

★ osteoporosis - caused by calcium deficiency

★ Iodine deficiency

References

1. "Malnutrition Is Cheating Its Survivors, and Africa’s Future" article in the New York Times by Michael Wines, December 28, 2006

See also

★ Avitaminosis

★ Malnutrition

★ Essential nutrient

★ List of ICD-10 codes (E54-E64) -- detailed taxonomy

★ Obesity

★ osteoporosis