DEFICIENCY DISEASES & IT'S CAUSES 🤯🤓🤮
Channel: PRISHA TV
Date: 2021-05-16

Balanced Diet :  is defined as a diet which provides all the nutrients required for the maintenance of cells, tissues and organs in our body.

Food and Health: Malnutrition is the condition that occurs when a person’s body does not get enough nutrients.
Kwashiorkor: children suffer from this disease if their diet does not have sufficient proteins and carbohydrates.

Marasmus: It occurs in children who are 1 year old or less than that. It is caused due to deficiency of proteins, fats and carbohydrates.

Difference between Kwashiorkor and Marasmus:

Diseases caused by Vitamins deficiency: 
Vitamin A –   Night Blindness –  Cannot see in dim light
Vitamin B Complex –  Beri Beri –   Muscles and nervous disorder
   Pellagra –   Red Skin Lesions 
Vitamin C-   Scurvy –  Bleeding of gums, teeth fall out, 
Pain in the joints, wounds do not heal properly.
Vitamin D-   Rickets-   Bones become soft and deformed,         bow-shaped legs, pigeon-type chest and        bending of the spine. 

Rickets and Osteomalacia: Vitamin D deficiency causes rickets, osteomalacia (adult rickets). In this legs become bow shaped. Chest becomes pigeon-type and the spine might bend. Osteoporosis is a disease that causes increased risk of fracture.

Anaemia:  is caused by the lack of iron in blood. Red blood cells carry oxygen around the body in an iron rich pigment called haemoglobin. Anaemia is deficiency of these red blood cells. Common symptoms include weakness, feels breathless on little exercise and skin becomes pale.

Goitre: is caused due to iodine deficiency. Neck region becomes enlarged. There is slow mental and physical development in children. 

Obesity: disorder is caused if excessive nutrients are taken as food. Children eat alot of chips, pastries, samosas, burgers, which contain huge quantity of carbohydrates and fats and many lead to obesity.