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Minerals Deficiency Diseases Preven ons

Pa ents should take calcium-rich

food like spinach, cabbage,
Calcium Bri le bones, excessive almonds, milk, beans, meat, eggs,
bleeding, stunted growth
fish, etc.

Pa ents should take cereals,
Bad bones and teeth,
Phosphorous pusles, nuts, egg yolk, milk, and
body weakness
green vegetables.

Pa ents should take adequate
Dehydra on, extreme
Sodium amount of salt and seafood.
body weakness

Pa ents should take eggs, milk,
Potassium Muscles weakness
cheese and potatoes.

Pa ents should take green leafy
Iron Anaemia
vegetables, flour, apple, brinjals,
meals, liver and eggs.

Pa ents should take iodised salt,
Iodine Goitre (enlarged thyroid)
fish and seafood.

Pa ents should take seafood as
Fluorine Tooth decay well as he/she drink adequate
amount of water.

Nutrients : The elements of food that help in maintaining life processes

Energy : The capacity to do work
Soluble : The substance that can be dissolved in any liquid
Health : Physical and mental well-being

Balanced diet : The diet containing all the essential nutrients in right proportion
Disease : Physical or mental disorder
Deficiency Disease : Diseases caused due to deficiency of nutrients

Malnutrition : Inadequate supply of nutrition

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