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NDA 2021 GAT · General Knowledge · Nutrition, Diseases and Health · easy

Deficiency of iodine in the diet causes

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Deficiency of iodine in the diet causes
  1. A. goitre
  2. B. rickets
  3. C. scurvy
  4. D. anaemia
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Answer: (A) goitre

Iodine is needed to make thyroxine. Lack of it enlarges the thyroid gland, called goitre. Rickets comes from vitamin D deficiency, scurvy from vitamin C deficiency, and anaemia mainly from iron deficiency. Iodised salt is used to prevent goitre.
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