Diet

Diet: Various different diet types as risk factors.
Introduction: Different types of diet have various effects as a risk factor for different medical conditions. See also other diet-related risk factors such as fat, salt, protein, alcohol, caffeine, and dieting.

Condition count: 37; see list of conditions below.
Risk factor subtypes: fat (9), salt (6), protein (1)
Related risk factors: fat (9), salt (6), protein (1), alcohol (36), caffeine (2), dieting, cholesterol (14)

Risk factors: Risk Factor Center, risk factor list

Diet: Diseases list

The following list of medical conditions have 'Diet' or similar listed as a risk factor in our database:

A

• Acute Appendicitis ... refined carbohydrate diet, low-fiber diet
• Acute rheumatic fever ... poor nutrition
• Anemia ... not eating red meat, dieting, vegetarians
• Aneurysm ... high saturated fat diet
• Angina ... high saturated fat diet, high salt diet

B

• Beriberi ... malnutrition

C

• Cancer ... Diet
• Cervical Cancer ... malnutrition, poor nutrition
• Colorectal cancer ... low-fiber diet, high-fat diet, Diet, poor diet
• Colorectal Polyps ... low-fiber diet, refined foods, poor diet
• Coronary heart disease ... poor diet
• Cysticercosis ... eating pork, undercooked pork

D

• Diseases contagious from pigs ... pork
• Diverticular Disease ... low-fiber diet, high salt diet, high fat diet

F

• Folate deficiency ... poor diet

G

• Gallstones ... dieting
• Gout ... purine-rich foods

H

• Heart attack ... high-salt diet, high-fat diet, poor diet
• Heart block ... high cholesterol diet, high-salt diet, poor diet
• Heartburn ... poor diet
• High Cholesterol ... high-fat diet
• Hypertension ... high saturated fat diet, high salt diet

M

• Mouth conditions ... poor diet

N

• Neurocysticercosis ... eating pork, undercooked pork

O

• Osteoporosis ... low-calcium diet, high protein diet, high salt diet, poor diet, low vitamin D diet

P

• Pancreatic cancer ... high-fat diet
• Prostate Cancer ... high-animal-fat diet, Diet, poor diet

R

• Relapsing fever ... malnutrition
• Rheumatic fever ... poor nutrition

S

• Scurvy ... poor nutrition
• Stomach cancer ... diet

T

• Tapeworms ... undercooked pork
• Thiamine deficiency ... malnutrition
• Thyroid cancer ... iodine deficiency
• Trichinosis ... undercooked pork
• Tuberculosis ... malnutrition

V

• Vincent's disease ... malnutrition

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