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Deficiency Disease: Beriberi
Deficiency Symtoms: Enlarged heart, cardiac failure, suscle weakness, apathy, short term memory loss, confusion, irritability, anorexia, weight loss.
Toxicity: none reported.
Source: whole grains, fortified, or enriched grain products. |
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Deficiency Disease: Ariboflavinosis
Deficiency Symptoms: Sore throat, cracks and redness at corners of mouth, painful purpleish tongue, inflammation characteriexed by skin lesions covered with greasy scales.
Toxicity: none reported.
Source: Milk products, whole grain, fortified, or enriched grain products. |
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Deficiency Disease: Pellegra
Deficiency Symptoms: Diarrhea, abdominal pain, vomiting, inflammed, swollen, red tongue, depression, apathy, fatigue, loss of memory, headache, bilateral symmetrical rash on areas exposed to sunlight.
Toxicity: Painful flush, hives, and rash, nausea and vomiting, liver damage, and impared glucose tolerance.
Source: Milk, eggs, meat, pultry, fish, whole grains, nuts |
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Deficiency Disease: none found
Deficiency Symptoms: Depression, lethargy, hallucinations, numb or tingling sensation in the arms and legs, red scaly rash around the eyes, nose, and mouth, hair loss.
Toxicity: none
Sources: Liver, egg yolks, soy beans, fish, whole grains |
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Deficiency Disease: None Found
Deficiency Symptoms: comiting, nausea, stomach cramps, insomnia, fatigue, depression, irritability, restlessness, apathy, hypoglycemia, increased sensitivity to insulin, numbness, muscle cramps, inability to walk.
Toxicity: none reported
Source: Chicken, beef, potatoes, oats, tomatoes, liver, egg yolk, broccoli, whole grains. |
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Vitamin B6 aka pridoxine, pyridoxamine, and pyridoxal |
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Deficiency Disease: none found
Deficiency Symptoms: scaly dermatitis, anemia, depression, confusion, and convulsions
Toxicity: depression, fatigue, irritability, headaches, skin lesions, nerve damage causing dumbness and muscle weakness leading to an inability to walk and convulsions
Source: Meats, fish, putrty, potatoes, legumes, noncitrus fruits, fotified cereals, liver, soy |
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Folate aka folic acid, floacin, pteroylglutamic acid (PGA) |
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Deficiency Disease: none found
Deficiency Symptoms: anemia, smooth red tongue, mental confusion, weakness, fatigue, irritability, headache, shortness of breath, elevated homosysteine
Toxicity: Masks vitamin B12
Source: fortified grains, leafy greans, legumes, seeds, liver |
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Vitamin B12 aka cobalamin |
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Deficiency Disease: pernicious anemia
Deficiency Symptoms: anemia, fatigue, degeneration of peripheral nerves progressing to paralysis, sore tongue, loss of appetite, constipation
Toxicity: none reported
Source: meat, fish, poultry, shellfish, milk , cheese, eggs, fortified cereals. |
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Deficiency Disease: none
Deficiency Symptoms: liver damage
Toxicity: body odor, sweating, salivation, reduced growth rate, low blood pressure, liver damage.
Source: Milk, eggs, liver, peanuts |
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Vitamin C aka Ascorbic acid |
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Deficiency Disease: scurvy
Deficiency Symptoms: anemia, atherosclerotic plaques, pinpoint hemorrhages, bone fragility, joint pain, poor wound healing, frequent infections, bleeding gums, loosened teeth, muscle degeneration and pain, hysteria, depression, rough skin, blotchy bruises.
Toxicity: Nausea, abdominal cramps, diarrhea, headache, fatigue, insomnia, hot flashes, rashes, interference with medical tests, aggravation of gout symptoms, urinary tract problems, kidney stones.
Source: citrus fruits, cabbage, brussels sprouts, couliflower, dark green vegetables, cantaloupe, strawberries, lettuce, tomaties, potatoes, papayas, mangoes. |
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Vitamin A aka retinol, retinal, retinoic acid |
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Deficiency Disease: Hypovitaminosis A
Deficiency Symptoms: night blindness, corneal drying, Bitot's spots, softening of the cornea, and corneal degeneration and blindness. Impared immunity, plugging of hair follicies with keratin, forming white lumps.
Toxicity: reduced bone density, liver abnormalties, birth defects, blurred vision, nausea, comiting, bertigo, increase of pressure inside skull, mimicking brain tumor, headaches, muscle incoordination.
Source: fortified milk, cheese, cream, butter, fortified margarine, eggs, liver |
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Deficiency Disease: Rickets and Osteoporosis
Deficiency Symptoms: Rickets: misshapen bones, enlargement of ends of long bones, defored ribs, delated closing of frontanel, lax muscles, muschle spasms.
Osteoporosis: soft, flexible, brittle, and deformed bones, progressive weakness, pain in pelvis, lower back, and legs.
Toxicity: Elevated blood calcium, calcification of soft tissues
Source: fortified milk, margarine, butter, juices, cereals, and chocolate mixes, veal, beef, egg yolks, lifer, fatty fish |
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Vitamin E aka alpha-tocopherol |
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Deficiency Disease: none
Deficiency Symptoms: red blood cell breakage, nerve damage
Toxicity: augments the effects of anticlotting medication
Source: polyunsaturated plant ois, leafy green vegetables, wheat germ, whole grains, liver, egg yolks, nuts, seeds, fatty meats |
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Vitamin K aka phylloquinone, menaquinone, menadione, naphthoquinone |
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Deficiency Disease: none
Deficiency Symptoms: Hemorrhaging
Toxicity: none known
Source: liver, leafy green vegetables, cabbage like vegetables, milk |
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