Food as Medicine

Nutrient deficiencies

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This is a disease associated with Vitamin C deficiency that is characterized by bleeding, gum disease, weakness, other skin changes including perifollicular hemorrhage. 

What is scurvy?

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This nutrient deficiency can lead to growth retardations, decreased immunity, diarrhea, rashes/skin lesions, alopecia.

What is zinc deficiency?

Oysters contain more zinc than any other food! Other animal meats are also high sources of zinc. Plant based foods are lower in zinc content in comparison.

Vegans/vegetarians typically eat high levels of legumes and whole grains, which contain phytates that bind zinc and inhibit its absorption

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This vitamin deficiency can cause serious complications such as subacute combined degeneration. It can also cause anemia and glossitis. 

What is Vitamin B12 (cobalamin) deficiency? 

Vit B12 is only obtained from animal foods or fortified foods, so vegetarians/vegans are at risk of being deficient. 

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This nutrient deficiency is associated with a risk of severe measles (and is given as a treatment in children with measles). 

What is Vitamin A?

Vitamin A deficiency is also the leading cause of preventable childhood blindness across the globe. 

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This deficiency is thought to be the cause of Keshan disease, a congestive cardiomyopathy that results when someone with this nutrient deficiency suffers from a second stressor (usually a virus).

What is selenium deficiency?

The selenium content of foods depends on the selenium content of the soil in the area where the foods are grown. The most selenium deficient soils are seen in China. China starting applying selenium to growing crops in the 1970s, dramatically reducing the incidence of Keshan disease. 

Name that diet

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What is the Mediterranean diet?

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This diet is based on the hypothesis that the human genome has not adapted to consume products of agriculture, and thus is based on consumption of meat, fish, eggs, nuts, fruits and vegetables; with no processed foods, grains or dairy products included.

What is the Paleo diet?

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Exclusive enteral nutrition is a liquid diet used to help induce remission in this disease. It consists of the patient taking only formula PO or with NGT for 6-12 weeks. 

What is IBD?

400

Potential side effects of this diet have included kidney stones, cardiomyopathy (thought to be associated with a deficiency in selenium) and growth failure. 

What is the ketogenic diet?

*Pediatric annals: The Ketogenic Diet: A Practical Guide for Pediatricians

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Quinoa and amaranth are great foods for patients on this diet which has been shown to be associated fiber and folic acid deficiencies. 

What is the gluten free diet?

What's that food?

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This is a product that can be used to give a cheesy or nutty flavor to vegan dishes; it comes as yellow flakes or powder. 

What is nutritional yeast?

It's made from deactivated yeast. 

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These are the edible flowers that come from the zucchini plant. They can be stuffed, fried, or put in soups or on pizzas. 

What are zucchini (or squash) blossoms?

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These are high in omega-3 fatty acids, fiber, antioxidants, iron, and calcium; they make a fine pudding. 

What are chia seeds?

They are the richest plant source of omega-3 fatty acids

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This food is made from fermented soy beans . 

What is tempeh?

1 cup of tempeh contains 31 g of protein (> 50% of your daily requirement)

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What is kohlrabi?

Comes from the cabbage family

Foods with...

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This vegetable, often served mashed, has lots of vitamin C.

What is a potato?

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This vegetable contains more water that a watermelon.

What is iceberg lettuce?

Watermelon = 92%

Iceberg = 96% as are cucumbers

300

Name three foods rich in potassium.

What are potatos, sweet potatos, bananas, avocados, beet greens, white beans, swiss chard, soy beans, spinach, Salmon, yogurt?

There are more... 

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These foods are good plant-based sources of iron.

What are leafy greens, legumes (beans, lentils, and peas), soy foods (especially tempeh and tofu), quinoa, brown rice, tahini, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, flaxseeds seeds, almonds, cashews, pine nuts, blackstrap molasses?

Plant based foods contain the non-heme iron form that is less bioavailable (so they should get 1.8x the standard RDI). However, rates of IDA are no higher in vegetarians than in meat eaters. 

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These foods are rich in magnesium.

What are almonds, spinach, cashews, peanuts, soymilk, black beans, edemame, peanut butter, avocado, potato, brown rice? 

In general, foods containing dietary fiber provide magnesium (greens, nuts, seeds, beans, whole grains)

Magnesium is a cofactor in more than 300 enzyme systems, helps with bone development, plays a role in the active transport and Ca and K across membranes

So random

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To prepare this food raw many people massage it to break down the fibers. 

What is kale?

200

This food was implicated as a potential reason that Israeli children had a much lower significance of peanut allergy.

What is bamba?

300

What is celiac disease?

Figure A shows normal villi in the small intestine and Figure B shows marked villus blunting and crypt hyperplasia.

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Golden rice is a GMO crop that was created as a public health initiative to combat this nutrient deficiency in developing countries. 

Whats is vitamin A deficiency? 

500

These two supplements have been noted by the American Academy of Neurology to "be effective" and "probably be effective," respectively, at preventing migraines and should be considered for patients. 

What are butterbur and magnesium?

Co-enzyme Q10 is noted to possibly be effective.