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In humans, vitamin c.
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What can cause deficiency of vitamin c?
The lack of citric fruits in the diet.
What causes deficiency diseases in human beings?
Insufficient quantities of specific minor nutrients (e.g. vitamins, minerals) in the diet cause deficiency diseases. Each deficiency disease is associated with one specific nutrient (e.g. scurvy with vitamin C, rickets with vitamin D) as its cause.
Vitamin b1 deficiency disease?
Beriberi It is rare in the United States because foods are now vitamin fortified. If you consume a healthy diet, you should get enough thiamine.
Has there ever been a carnivorous cow?
Occaisonally the media has reported a cow eating a rabbit or something. Mostly this is from a mineral deficiency, called Pika, that stems from a nitrogen deficiency in the diet, and cows that have this deficiency will turn to eating carrion or small animals to satisfy that deficiency craving. A healthy cow that has all her mineral and vitamin requirements met will not turn carnivorous. She will be what evolution made her to be: a large, herbivorous grazer.
Is there any way to prevent a B Vitamin deficiency?
Vitamin B deficiency can be prevented by maintaining a good diet with consumption of vegetables that provide this vitamin and taking multivitamins as prescribed by your physician.
Can Vitamin C cause side effects?
Improve The first symptom that you would notice in a person with a vitamin C deficiency is bleeding gums. Lack of vitamin C causes a disease known as scurvy, which if it is not treated by vitamin C will become fatal. People cannot live without vitamin C in their diet.
Scurvy is a deficiency disease it occurs when the diet lacks the needed what?
Vitamin C
What is the dificiency?
caused by a lack of a nutrient in the diet
How does a diet lacking lipid cause a vitamin deficiency?
Because Vitamins A and D are fat soluble, so insufficient fats mean insufficient vitamins A and D
Treatment for ricketts?
Rickets is caused by a deficiency of vitamin D, so it would be treated by adding vitamin D to the diet.
Scurvy is a deficiency disease it occurs when the diet lacks the needed?
lakage of vitamin C
Lack of vitamin b?
Beriberi is caused by a lack of vitamin B1, pellagra by a lack of vitamin B3, while pernicious anemia is due to a lack of vitamin B12. A lack of Vitamin B is simply called a Vitamin B Deficiency.
