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Your female friend has been consuming a diet low in calcium and is inactive. What nutritional deficiency disease might they be at increased risk for in the future?.

Answer :

Osteoporosis is a deficiency disease that might be increased risk due to the low consumption of calcium and inactive.

Osteoporosis is a most common bone disease mostly in females due to the low consumption of food with calcium and vitamin D and also having certain prolonged illnesses that make the body inflammable. This is a silent disease that may give you symptoms at the time of breaking a bone. Diet low in calcium results in the formation of fragile and brittle bones which can cause bone fracture anytime.

There are certain factors that directly increase the risk for osteoporosis:

  • Low term low calcium intake
  • old age and being a woman
  • Inactivity (results in low bone density)
  • smoking and heavy alcohol consumption
  • low estrogen

To learn more about osteoporosis, follow the below link:

https://brainly.com/question/7246059

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