List of illnesses related to poor nutrition

Many diseases in humans are thought to be directly or indirectly related to nutrition, These include, but are not limited to, deficiency diseases, caused by a lack of essential nutrients.

Additionally, several diseases are directly or indirectly impacted by dietary habits, and require very close attention to the nutrient content of food.

Vitamins

 * Vitamin poisoning

Microminerals and Macrominerals

 * Iron overload disorder

Proteins/fats/carbohydrates

 * protein-energy malnutrition
 * kwashiorkor
 * marasmus
 * Mental retardation

Vitamin
Also see Avitaminosis, and table of deficiency diseases at human vitamins - night blindness - dry skin - anemia -
 * beriberi
 * rickets
 * scurvy
 * pellagra
 * spina bifida
 * poor immune system function, potentially leading to a wide range of other illnesses.

Microminerals and Macrominerals

 * metabolic or nutritionally related disease such as diabetes mellitus or endemic goitre
 * zinc deficiency (growth retardation)
 * osteoporosis - caused by calcium deficiency
 * Iodine deficiency