Tag: balanced diet and malnutrition

Marasmus is due to protein-energy deficiency that can occur any time if the infant is not provided with sufficient milk. Kwashiorkor mostly occurs due to nonutilisation of protein in the diet caused by aflatoxin accumulation.

• Kwashiorkor, a disease of protein malnutrition, causes low level of blood proteins (serum albumins), which cause poor return of tissue fluid through capillaries. It leads to the swelling of tissues through  increase of its tissue fluid  which results into oedema.
• So,(D) albumin is the correct option. 

• The yellows disease of tea, the nature of which has hitherto remained obscure, has caused serious losses to planters in Nyasaland. It is characterized by a progressive degeneration of the bush, in which the leaves become chlorotic, small, uprolled and of stiff texture, and are finally shed.It is caused due to the deficiency of Nitrogen. 

Diarrhoeal diseases are a group of intestinal infections, including food poisoning. The causative agents are mainly bacteria such as Staphylococus, Clostridium, Escherichia coli, Shigella, Salmonella etc.

Cytokinins delay the senescence of leaves and other organs by controlling protein synthesis and mobilization. Reported by "Richmond and Lang" in 1957 working on "Xanthium leaves".