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When you don't get enough vitamin D you can get sick easier.
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What nutrient is needed to prevent scurvy?
Scurvy can be the result of a lack of vitamin D
Which disease caused by lack of vitamin D can result in bent legs?
Rickets is a disease caused by a lack of vitamin D and calcium. It can cause weakness and softening of the bones, including bowleggedness.
The lack of what vitamin may cause psoriasis?
vitamin D
What are 3 deficiencies of Vitamin D?
Lack of sunlight (it is proven through tests that people who enjoy the actual sunlight tend to produce Vitamin D biologically) Lack of Vitamin D rich Foods Lack of Vitamin D supplements (Which can be avoided in necessity if you eat and drink Vitamin D rich foods and get ample sunlight without over exposure)
How are rickets caused?
Lack of Vitamin D
What is the cause of rickits?
Lack of Vitamin D.
What are the disease that can happen if you don't eat enough Vitamin D?
Lack of vitamin D can cause Rickets in children. Rickets is the softening of bones. Vitamin D plays a part in bone health because it helps us absorb calcium Lack of vitamin D also puts you at risk of cardiovascular diseases. Lack of vitamin D has been linked to people with high blood pressure
Why were Incas skulls so long?
This is the result of a disease of which I have forgotten the name of, having to do with a lack of vitamin D the Incas could not always get the kind of foods necessary to have high amounts of vitamin D, due to their location in the mountains.
What is the disease that is caused by lack of Vitamin D?
Rickets
Lack of vitamin D cause which disease?
Rickets
What are the later symptoms of primary biliary cirrhosis?
Jaundice from the accumulation of bile and nutritional deficiencies-bruising from lack of vitamin K, bone pain from lack of vitamin D, night blindness from lack of vitamin A, and skin rashes, lack of vitamin E.
Write a list of conditions that result from under-nutrition or from an excess of nutrients?
Overnutrition: Obesity Undernutrition: * Anemia (iron deficiency) * Beriberi (lack of Thiamine, vitamin B1) * Scurvy (lack of Vitamin C) * Rickets (lack of Vitamin D, or calcium, or sunlight to form cholecalciferol) * Night blindness (lack of Vitamin A as retinol) * Pellagra (lack of niacin, vitamin B3) Excess intake of vitamins or minerals : * Vitamin A poisoning (usually from animal liver or supplements) * Vitamin C poisoning (diarrhea and kidney pain) * Iron Overdose (potentially fatal, from overuse of supplements)
