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Nutritional Muscular Dystrophy (Nutritional Myopathy or White Muscle Disease) is a disease caused by a deficiency of selenium and vitamin E in dietary intake. [1] Soils that contains low levels of selenium produce forages and grains that are deficient in selenium.
Obesity is caused by eating too many calories compared to the amount of exercise the individual is performing, causing a distorted energy balance. It can lead to diseases such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Obesity is a condition in which the natural energy reserve, stored in the fatty tissue of humans and other mammals, is increased ...
animals domesticated for food production (cattle, poultry) raw or undercooked food made from animals and unwashed vegetables contaminated with feces Giardiasis: Giardia lamblia: beavers, other rodents, raccoons, deer, cattle, goats, sheep, dogs, cats ingesting spores and cysts in food and water contaminated with feces Glanders: Burkholderia mallei.
This article is a list of diseases of rice (Oryza sativa). Diseases have historically been one of the major causes of rice shortages. [1] ...
This article is a list of diseases of cultivated wild rice (Zizania palustris). Fungal Brown Spot is the only significant commercial disease of cultivated wild rice. It is found mostly in the cultivated wild rice fields of Minnesota.
Vitamin deficiencies may result in disease conditions. Excess of some vitamins is also dangerous to health (notably vitamin A), and animal nutrition researchers have managed to establish safe levels for some common companion animals. [5] Deficiency or excess of minerals can also have serious health consequences.
Food-borne and infectious diseases can result in malnutrition, and malnutrition exacerbates infectious disease. Poor nutrition leaves children and adults more susceptible to contracting life-threatening diseases such as diarrheal infections and respiratory infections. [2]
However, Jamaican pediatrician Cicely Williams introduced the term in 1935, two years after she published the disease's first formal description. Williams was the first to research kwashiorkor and differentiate it from other dietary deficiencies. She was the first to suggest that this might be a protein deficiency.