Possible effects of the diet include digestive problems, loss of fluids in the body, and development of kidney stones or gall stones.

VOA: special.2010.10.26

Now the fact that people were so reliant on certain foods led to deficiencies of certain nutrients, so people that were dependent on a rice based diet tended to have problems with deficiencies in protein, Vitamin A, and thiamine.

人们过于依赖某些特定的食物,导致了某些营养元素的匮乏,因此,以米饭为主食的人,很可能缺少蛋白质,维生素A和维生素B1

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Let's do the research to try to fix the problems rather than changing the whole diet of the human race."

VOA: standard.2010.06.04

He said that one of the problems with fen-phen, a diet drug combo that wound up causing heart-valve problems, was that doctors were too eager to hand them out.

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Over the long term, a diet with too much protein can pose risks of problems including kidney stones.

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Unfortunately, unforseen side effects emerged sometimes when Redux was combined with another diet drug, phentermine: Patients developed potentially lethal problems with their heart valves.

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