Mature chickens show signs 3 weeks after being fed a deficient diet.

Pellagra, he asserted, arose not from germs, as commonly thought, but from deficient diets.

His main concern now is the "seriously deficient" diet consumed by a very large proportion of American children.

The deficient diets lacked sufficient taurine to allow the cats to properly form protein structures and resulted in the health effects observed.

A diet rich in fats and perhaps protein and relatively deficient in fruits and vegetables may also play a role, some studies say.

She warns that these programs can "border on abusiveness" because they sometimes include nutritionally deficient diets.

Cretinism arises from a diet deficient in iodine.

This muscle-wasting effect is a natural consequence of a diet deficient in both calories and in protein.

Finally, poor women had deficient diets, because their husbands and children received disproportionately large shares of food.

Poor Muslim women were the ones with both the most deficient diets and the greatest susceptibility to anaemia.