Nutritional deficiencies

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Nutritional deficiencies

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Many diseases in humans are directly or indirectly caused by improper eating habits, malnutrition and starvation. These include, but are not limited to, nutritional deficiency diseases, caused by a lack of essential nutrients. These can be associated with poor cognitive performance and other symptoms of interest to psychologists

Additionally, some mental disorders are directly or indirectly linked to nutritional deficiencies]]. These include:-

• Alcoholic psychosis
• Alcoholism
• Anorexia nervosa

Metabolic disorders

Metabolic or nutritionally related disease such as diabetes mellitus or endemic goiter

Vitamins

• Vitamin poisoning

Refers to a condition of overly high storage levels of vitamins, which can lead to toxic symptoms. The medical names of the different conditions are derived from the vitamin involved: an excess of vitamin A, for example, is called "hypervitaminosis A".

Ingestion

Articles

Animal feeding behavior Craving Dieticians Dietary supplements Dietary restraint Diets Drinking behavior Eating attitudes Eating behavior Eating disorders Food Food additives Food allergies Food deprivation Food refusal Food intake Food preferences Nutrition

Related topics

Animal foraging behavior Animal hoarding behavior Appetite Malnutrition Digestion Mealtimes Starvation Weight control

Microminerals and macrominerals

• Iron overload disorder

Iron overload disorders are diseases caused by the overaccumulation of iron in the body. Organs commonly affected are the liver, heart and endocrine glands.[1]

Deficiencies (eating too little)

Main article: Malnutrition

Proteins/fats/carbohydrates

• Protein deficiency disorders
• Protein-energy malnutrition
  • Kwashiorkor
  • Marasmus
  • Mental retardation

Mineral deficiencies

• Calcium
  • Osteoporosis
  • Rickets
• Iodine deficiency
• Iron deficiency
  • Iron deficiency anemia
• Zinc
  • Growth retardation

==Vitamin deficiency disorders]]

• Vitamin B1, Thiamine
  • Beriberi
• Vitamin B3, Niacin
  • Pellagra
• Vitamin C
  • Scurvy
• Vitamin D
  • Osteoporosis
  • Rickets

See also

• Avitaminosis
• Diets
• Eating disorders
• Essential nutrient
• Failure to thrive
• Food deprivation
• Food security
• List of ICD-10 codes (E54-E64) -- detailed taxonomy
• Metabolism disorders
• Nutrition
• Obesity
• Osteoporosis
• Starvation
• Underweight