Metal deficient diets

Behavioural abnormalities, in some cases, are caused by deficiencies of metals in the diet. For example, anorexia nervosa is recognized as stemming from zinc deficiency and possibly abnormal zinc metabolism.

1. Nutritional deficiencies

1. Vanadium deficiency
2. Manganese deficiency
3. Iron deficiency anaemias
4. Inadequate dietary zinc
5. Inadequate dietary magnesium
6. Inadequate dietary boron
7. Copper deficiency in the diet
8. Chromium deficiency
9. Calcium deficiency

1. Trace element imbalance in the human body
2. Physical aggression
3. Human violence
4. Biologically determined aggression

1. Menkes' disease
2. Hepatolenticular degeneration

1. Deficiency