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Illness caused by lack of sufficient amount of a nutrient is called "malnutrition".
Vitamin A
primary nutrient deficiency is caused by lack of intake of said nutrient (deficiency is caused by not consuming the nutrient in adequate amounts)
Anaemia, goitre, obesity and many more
caused by a lack of a nutrient in the diet
'Scurvy' is a disease caused by the lack of vitamin C ,
a deficiency
the main nutrient for goitre is the lack of movement that you do and the man symptons are that u will get lump nside your neck which only moves up and down.
Deficiency diseases are diseases that are caused by a lack of an essential nutrient. For example if you did not have enough vitamins in your diet, you would get deficiency diseases such as scurvy.
A deficiency is a lack or shortage, therefore deficiency diseases are caused by a lack or shortage of necessary nutrients in the body. One example is scurvy, a disease associated with pirates that occurs when an individual suffers from a vitamin C deficiency.
'Deficiency diseases like goiter (hypthyroid), scurvy (lack of citrus intake), and beriberi (lack of vitamin B1) are all caused by some nutrient that is absent or very low in a person's diet.
because they lack nutrient