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  2. Nutritional anemia - Wikipedia

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    This is common in immunocompromised, elderly, and diabetic people. High blood loss can also come from the increased loss of blood during menstruation, childbirth, cancers of the intestines, and disorders that hinder the blood's ability to coagulate. [citation needed] Medications can have adverse effects and cause nutritional anemia as well.

  3. Tea and toast syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Tea and toast syndrome is a form of malnutrition commonly experienced by elderly people who cannot prepare meals and tend to themselves. The term is not intrinsic to tea or bread products only; rather, it describes limited dietary patterns that lead to reduced calories resulting in a deficiency of vitamins and other nutrients.

  4. Ferritin - Wikipedia

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    Vegetarianism is not a cause of low serum ferritin levels, according to the American Dietetic Association's position in 2009: "Incidence of iron-deficiency anemia among vegetarians is similar to that of non-vegetarians. Although vegetarian adults have lower iron stores than non-vegetarians, their serum ferritin levels are usually within the ...

  5. Dr. Jeff Hersh explains what causes anemia and options ... - AOL

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    Red blood cells normally survive an average of about 120 days, becoming damaged (their oxygen-carrying capacity becomes compromised) as they age.

  6. 10 nutritional deficiencies that can cause depression and ...

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    Depression affects around 14.8 million adults in the U.S. That?s around 7 percent of the entire population aged 18 and over.

  7. Anemia - Wikipedia

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    Main symptoms that may appear in anemia [20] The hand of a person with severe anemia (on the left, with ring) compared to one without (on the right). A person with anemia may not have any symptoms, depending on the underlying cause, and no symptoms may be noticed, as the anemia is initially mild, and then the symptoms become worse as the anemia worsens.

  8. Vegetarian nutrition - Wikipedia

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    A variety of vegetarian, and more specifically vegan, foods. Vegetarian nutrition is the set of health-related challenges and advantages of vegetarian diets.. Appropriately planned vegetarian diets are healthful and nutritionally adequate for all stages of the human life cycle, including during pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence. [1]

  9. Vegan nutrition - Wikipedia

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    There are concerns about the bioavailability of iron from plant foods, assumed by some researchers to be 5–15 percent compared to 18 percent from a non-vegetarian diet. [110] Iron-deficiency anemia is found as often in non-vegetarians as in vegetarians. Vegetarians' iron stores are lower.