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Deficiency Symptoms: Anorexia, neurological disturbances, muscular weakness, heart englargement and failure
Deficiency Diease: Beriberi
Toxicity Symptoms: Non
Food sources: Enriched, fortified, or wholegrain products; pork
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Deficiency Symptoms: Inflammation of the mouth, skin, and eyelids. Sore throat, cracks and redness at cornors of mouth, and purplish red tongue.
Difeciency Disease: Ariboflavinosis
Toxicity Symptoms: None
Food Sources: Milk products; enriched, fortified, or wholegrain products; liver |
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Deficiency Symptoms: Diarrhea, abdominal pain, vomitting; Inflamed, swollen, smooth, bright red tongue; Depression, apathy, fatigue, loss of memory, headache; Bilateral symmertrical rash on areas exposed to sunlight
Deficiency Diease: Pellagra
Toxicity Symptoms: Niacin flush, liver damage, impaired glucose tolerance
Food Sources: Protein-rich foods |
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Deficiency Symptoms: Skin rash, hair loss, neurological disturbances, depression, lethargy, hallucinations, numb or tingling sensation in the arms and legs; Red, scaly rash around eyes, nose, and mouth; Hair loss
Toxicity Symptoms: None
Food Sources: Widespread in foods; GI bacteria synthesis |
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Deficiency Symptoms: Digestive and neurological disturbances, vomitting, nasea, stomach cramps; Insomnia, fatigue, depression, irritability, restlessness, apathy; Hypoglycemia, increase sensitivy to insulin; Numbness, muscle cramps, inability to walk
Toxcity Symptoms: None
Food Sources: Widespread in foods |
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Deficiency Symptoms: Scaly dermatitis, depression, confusion, convulsions, anemia
Toxicity Symptoms: Nerve degeneration, skin lesions, depression, headaches, fatigue, and irritability
Food Sources: Protein-rich foods |
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Deficiency Symptoms: Anemia, glossitis, neurological disturbances, elevated homocysteine
Toxicity Symptoms: Masks vitamin B12 deficiency
Food Sources: Legumes, vegatables, fortified grain products |
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Deficiency Symptoms: Anemia, nerve damage and paralysis
Deficiency Disease: Tongue smooth and swollen (glossitis) and irritated and inflamed conors of mouth (cheilosis)
Toxicity Symptoms: None
Food Sources: Foods derived from animals
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Deficiency Symptoms: Scurvy (bleeding gums, pinpoint hemorhages, abnormal bone growth, and joint pain)
Deficiency Diseases: Scorbic gums, scurvy
Toxicity Symptoms: Diarrhea, GI distress
Food Sources: Fruits and vegetables |
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Deficiency Symptoms: Infectious diseases, night blindess, blindess (erophthalmia), keratinization, night blindess, corneal drying (xerosis), triangular gray spots on eye, softening of cornea
Toxicity Symptoms: Reduced bone mineral density, liver abnormalities, birth defects
Significant Sources: Retinol: milk and milk products
Beta-carotene: dark green leafy and deep yellow/orange vegetables
Toxicity Disease: Hypervitaminosis Aa |
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Deficiency Symptoms: Rickets, Osteomalacia, red blood cell breakage
Toxicity Symptoms: Calcium imbalance, calcifications of soft tissues (kidneys, lungs, heart)
Significant Sources: Synthesized in the body with the help of sunshine; fortified milk |
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Deficiency Symptoms: Erythrocyte hemoloysis, nerve damage, red blood cell breakage, nerve damage.
Toxicity Symptoms: Hemorrhagic effects
Significant Sources: Vegetable Oils |
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Deficiency Symptoms: Hemorrhage
Toxicity Symptoms: None
Significant Sources: Synthesized in the body by GI bacteria; green leafy vegetables |
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Deficiency Symptoms: Liver damage
Toxicity Symptoms: Body odor, sweating, salivation, reduced growth rate, low blood pressure, liver damage.
Significant Sources: Milk, liver, eggs, peanuts |
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