Effects
Vitamin A deficiency - can cause night blindness and reduces the body's resistance to disease. In children it can cause growth retardation. It's estimated that 79 million pre-school children suffer from this disease.		Iron deficiency - This is the leading cause of anemia. Two billion people are anemic. This can lead to malaria and worm infections. For children this can cause premature birth, low birth weight, infections, and elevated risk of death.
Iodine deficiency disorders - This can jeopardize children's mental health and often times their lives. Serious iodine deficiency during pregnancy may result in stillbirths, abortions and congenial abnormalities such as cretinism, a grave, irreversible form of mental retardation that effects people living in iodine deficient areas of Africa and Asia.