Nutrition disorder

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Nutrition disorder Classification and external resources
MeSH	D009748

Many diseases in humans are directly or indirectly caused by improper eating habits and malnutrition. 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 1 Overnutrition (eating too much) 1.1 Food 1.1.1 Calories 1.2 Vitamins 1.3 Microminerals and macrominerals 2 Deficiencies (eating too little) 2.1 Proteins/fats/carbohydrates 2.2 Microminerals and macrominerals 3 Foot notes 4 See also

[edit] Overnutrition (eating too much)

Main article: Overnutrition

[edit] Food

See also: Overeating

[edit] Calories

• Obesity, which in turn can lead to diseases such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes.

Obesity is a condition in which the natural energy reserve, stored in the fatty tissue of humans and other mammals, is increased to a point where it is assoiated with certain health conditions or increased mortality.

[edit] Vitamins

• Vitamin poisoning

Vitamin poisoning, or hypervitaminosis, refers to a condition of 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".

[edit] Microminerals and macrominerals

• Iron overload disorder

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

[edit] Deficiencies (eating too little)

Main article: Malnutrition

[edit] Proteins/fats/carbohydrates

• Protein-energy malnutrition
  • Kwashiorkor
  • Marasmus
  • Mental retardation^[1]

[edit] Microminerals and macrominerals

• Iodine deficiency
• Iron deficiency
  • Iron deficiency anemia
• Metabolic or nutritionally related disease such as diabetes mellitus or endemic goitre
• Osteoporosis - caused by calcium deficiency
• Zinc deficiency (growth retardation)

[edit] Foot notes

[edit] See also

• Avitaminosis
• Malnutrition
• Essential nutrient
• List of ICD-10 codes (E54-E64) -- detailed taxonomy
• Obesity
• Osteoporosis

v • d • e Nutrition disorders (E40-68, 260-269) Malnutrition Kwashiorkor - Marasmus - Catabolysis Avitaminosis B vitamins: B1: Beriberi/Wernicke's encephalopathy, B2: Ariboflavinosis, B3: Pellagra, B6: Pyridoxine deficiency, B7: Biotin deficiency, B9: Folate deficiency, B12: Vitamin B12 deficiency other vitamins: A: Vitamin A deficiency/Bitot's spots, C: Scurvy, D: Rickets/Osteomalacia Mineral deficiency Zinc deficiency - Iron deficiency - Magnesium deficiency - Chromium deficiency Hyperalimentation Obesity - Vitamin poisoning (Hypervitaminosis A, Hypervitaminosis D, Hypervitaminosis E)