Deficiency Disease
Starvation | Obesity | Scurvy | Kwashiorkor |
Not enough food, especially foods with a lot of energy, causes you to become too thin. | Too much food, especially foods with a lot of energy, causes you to gain weight and increases the risk of heart attack. | Not enough Vitamin C causes your wounds to stop healing, sores to appear on the tongue and skin and teeth to fall out. | Not enough protein causes your organs to swell. |