description: A nutritional disorder is a disease that results from excessive or inadequate intake of food and nutrients which leads to conditions such as obesity, kwarshiarkor and rickets. Nutritional disorders us ...
A nutritional disorder is a disease that results from excessive or inadequate intake of food and nutrients which leads to conditions such as obesity, kwarshiarkor and rickets. Nutritional disorders usually result from long-standing states and habits such as malnutrition, compulsive disorders and abnormal intake of specific nutrients and minerals such as vitamin A which causes hypervitaminosis A and calcium which causes rickets.