Nutritional deficiencies are common in alcoholics. Provide two different reasons for this
What will be an ideal response?
Alcohol is high in calories, but has no real nutritional value. Thus, the alcoholic may not eat properly. Alcohol also compromises the body's ability to use ingested nutrients, so even if food high in nutritional value is ingested, the nutrients will not be fully available to the body.
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a. hours c. weeks b. days d. months