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Deficiency of vitamins in the food leads:
  1. certain specific diseases
  2. the temperature of the body becomes variable
  3. the body is not able to digest food
  4. the body becomes physically weak

A
the body becomes physically weak
B
certain specific diseases
C
the body is not able to digest food
D
the temperature of the body becomes variable
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Deficiency of the vitamins in the food causes certain specific disease.
Example: Deficiency of vitamin A in food causes Night blindness and deficiency of vitamin C causes scurvy, etc.

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