List of illnesses related to poor nutrition

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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.

1 Overnutrition (eating too much)
2 Deficiencies (eating too little)
3 References
4 See also

[edit] Overnutrition (eating too much)

[edit] Proteins/fats/carbohydrates

Cardiovascular disease (Leading cause of death in the western world); a primary cause is thought to be ingestion of saturated fat and trans fat
Some cancers
Diabetes mellitus
Insulin resistance
Obesity
Metabolic syndrome

[edit] Vitamins

Vitamin poisoning

[edit] Microminerals and Macrominerals

Iron overload disorder

[edit] Deficiencies (eating too little)

[edit] Proteins/fats/carbohydrates

protein-energy malnutrition

[edit] 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 -

[edit] 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