Nutritional and Digestive Disorders in Humans

A person who is on one long hunger strike and is surviving only on water, will have:

A patient is generally advised to specially, consume more meat, lentils, milk and eggs in diet only when he suffers from

Which one of the following pair is not correctly matched ?

The vitamin C or ascorbic acid prevents:

Calcium deficiency occurs in the absence of vitamin

Write a short note on appendicitis.

Pernicious anaemia is caused by the deficiency of vitamin:

The matchstick legs are the symptoms of _____ disorder.

Vomiting is caused due to:

Match the vitamins listed in Column-I with the diseases caused due to their deficiency in Column II.

Choose the CORRECT combination.

Widal test is prescribed to diagnose.

Good vision depends on adequate intake of carotene-rich food. Select the best option from the following statements.

a. Vitamin A derivatives are formed from carotene.

b. The photopigments are embedded in the membrane discs of the inner segments.

c. Retinal is a derivative of vitamin A.

d. Retinal is a light-absorbing part of all the visual photopigments.

Anxiety and eating spicy food together in an otherwise normal human, may lead to

Jaundice is a disease of

Protein deficiency leads to :
 

Kwashiorkor disease is due to deficiency of :
 
 

In which of the following disease liver is affected, skin and eyes turn yellow due to the deposition of bile pigments.

Vitamin which induces maturation of R.B.C.:-

The abnormal frequent bowel movement and increased liquidity of faecal discharge is known as