What diseases relate to poor nutrition?

Answer 1

Most diseases have a nutritional basis since good nutrition supports a healthy immune system to ward off Infectious Diseases. There are some nutritional deficiencies that produce serious health issues with specific names, such as scurvy which results from a deficiency of vitamin C. Other such diseases are ricketts, a weakened bone condition caused by a lack of vitamin D (usually obtained by exposure to sunlight, but has been added as fortification to foods in order to prevent this disease among those who do not get sufficient sunlight or have poor bodily response to sunlight); goiter, which is an enlarged thyroid gland caused by lack of iodine in the diet; anemia, from lack of iron; pernicious anemia, caused by lack of vitamin B12; nerve disorders from lack of B vitamins; appetite disorders caused by lack of B vitamins and/or iron; and bleeding disorders from lack of vitamin K. Loss of night vision results from vitamin A deficiency, lack of protein can result in several problems including kwashiorkor--a wasting disease whereby the body attacks its own tissues to make up for the starvation it is enduring. Bone loss can come about from a lack of any or all of these: calcium, magnesium, phosphorous, and or vitamin D. Without the appropriate oils found in good food sources, skin, tissues, joints, and hair suffer loss of resiliency. Lack of selenium and other trace minerals affects everything from mental stability to bone and tooth strength. Other disease processes are caused by too much food or nutritional substances. Type II Diabetes is caused by nutritional overload of sugars and fats causing a burden on the body's ability to convert them to usable blood sugars at a steady pace. Hypoglycemia is also caused by an overload of sugars or simple carbohydrates but the body's reaction is the opposite of Type II Diabetes--instead of little or no insulin available to deal with the sugars which flood the bloodstream, a lot of insulin is dumped into the bloodstream triggering a sudden drop in blood sugar levels. High blood pressure and artherosclerosis ("hardening of the arteries") are blamed on elevated cholesterol levels due to high fat diets and high sodium intake. High fat diets and high caloric diets are also to blame for obesity with all of its complications, including break down of knee joints, heart failure, lack of energy, snoring, sleep apnea, and more. Too much protein can cause kidney failure or complications, too much iron can result in death. The body is a finely tuned organism made to run on certain nutrients. Proper balances keep the body healthy and running smoothly and happily. Imbalances cause dis-ease. Good nutrition, the proper use of pure water, sunshine, exercise , fresh air, sleep, and a good relationship with your creator, will keep the body at its peak throughout its lifetime.

Answer 2

There are many disease caused by poor nutrition, overeating and undereating. These cause Diabetes, Cardiovascular Disease, Obesity, Anorexia, just to start the list then there is the followon effect of liver and pancreatic disease from lack of vitamins and nutrients.

Answer 3

Probably the most and least obvious is obesity. One usually associates "poor nutrition" with undereating. Maybe more dangerous is overeating, resulting in overfeeding with undernutrition. This leads to all sorts of problems: hypertension, high blood lipids, glucose intolerance where one still makes insulin but is unable to use it to properly metabolize sugar. Not least by any means, obesity causes, in some, very low self esteem which is very stressful on one's psyche and can lead to many psychiatric issues.

Answer 4

A poor diet can mean an unbalanced diet, or insufficient food, or unhealthy foods. One or more of these three can cause (or exacerbate) any of the following: high cholesterol, anemia, beri beri, pellagra, scurvy, rickets, diabetes, obesity, hypertension, osteoporosis, weakness, heart and artery disease, goiter, night blindness, high blood pressure, immune deficiency, liver disease, atherosclerosis, constipation, cognitive impairment, and hyperactivity.

Answer 5

A poor diet can mean an unbalanced diet, or insufficient food, or unhealthy foods. One or more of these three can cause (or exacerbate) any of the following: high cholesterol, anemia, beri beri, pellagra, scurvy, rickets, diabetes, obesity, hypertension, osteoporosis, weakness, heart and artery disease, goiter, night blindness, high blood pressure, immune deficiency, liver disease, atherosclerosis, constipation, cognitive impairment, and hyperactivity. Among other problems.
Which of the body-parts are affected?

• An unbalanced diet puts an added strain on your heart.
  
• It puts your kidneys at risk because of the much higher likelihood of getting diabetes. Diabetes can also bring blindness.
  
• It interferes with breathing and may bring on sleep-apnea.
  
• It puts extra strain on the skeleton, muscles and joints.
  
• It increases the chance of acid reflux.
  
• It causes problems in the legs' veins, sometimes bringing skin ulcers.
  
• It puts a strain on the liver due to localized fat buildup and can cause cirrhosis or liver-failure.
  

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Answer 6

You have marasmus due calorie deficiency. You have Kwashiorkar's syndrome due to protein deficiency. You have night blindness, Bitot's spots, keratomalacia, corneal ulcer, blindness and toad's skin due to Vitamin A deficiency. You have rickets and osteomalacia due to Vitamin D deficiency. You have dry and wet beriberi and Korsakoff's psychosis due to Vitamin B one or thiamine deficiency. You have angular stomatitis due to riboflavin deficiency. You have Pellagra due to niacin deficiency. You have macrocytic anaemia due to folate and cynocobalamin deficiency. You have scurvy due to Vitamin C deficiency. You microcytic hypochromic anaemia due to Iron deficiency. You have goitre due to deficiency of iodine.

Answer 7

Bulimia, not getting enough caloric intake, avoiding a certain food group....etc.

Answer 8

Scurvy (from a lack of Vitamin C) and pellagra (from a lack of niacin, aka Vitamin B3) are two of the big ones.

Answer 9

I Don't Exactly Know What Are The Diseases,

But I've Heard That Many Skinny Teenage Girls who think they are fat and make a Poor Diet Usually end up in Dead