Illnesses related to poor nutrition

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Template:Cleanup-date Template:SplitCategory Template:Cleanup-rewrite 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 1 Overnutrition (eating too much) 1.1 Proteins/fats/carbohydrates 1.2 Vitamins 1.3 Microminerals and Macrominerals 2 Deficiencies (eating too little) 2.1 Proteins/fats/carbohydrates 2.2 Vitamin 2.3 Microminerals and Macrominerals 3 See also

Overnutrition (eating too much)

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
• Obesity

Vitamins

• Vitamin poisoning

Microminerals and Macrominerals

• Iron overload disorder

Deficiencies (eating too little)

Proteins/fats/carbohydrates

• protein-energy malnutrition
  • kwashiorkor
  • marasmus

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.

Microminerals and Macrominerals

• metabolic or nutritionally related disease such as diabetes mellitus or endemic goitre
• zinc deficiency (growth retardation)
• osteoporosis - caused by calcium deficiency

See also

• Malnutrition
• Essential nutrient
• List of ICD-10 codes (E54-E64) -- detailed taxonomy
• ObesityTemplate:Disease-stub