Sentence examples for becoming deficient from inspiring English sources

"The meal plans we came up with revealed that in the long term there is a real risk of children and families becoming deficient in fibre, calcium, iron and a variety of vitamins.

The meal plans we came up with revealed that in the long term there is a real risk of children and families becoming deficient in fibre, calcium, iron and a variety of vitamins," she said.

Water, one of the vital natural resources for agricultural, is becoming deficient because of over-exploitation, poor groundwater recharge, immoderate use etc.

Second, DrotAA benefits patients with normal protein C levels at baseline because it reduces their likelihood of becoming deficient or may help to restore levels to normal by the end of infusion.

Aging infrastructures (e.g. roads, bridges and water mains) in America are deteriorating and becoming structurally deficient and their reliability and safety issues become matters of great concern.

The recent focus on calcium comes at a time when the nation is becoming increasingly deficient both in the mineral and in vitamin D, which enables the body to absorb and use it.

Studies in the precocial spiny mouse suggest that the reno-hepatic axis of creatine synthesis develops late in gestation [ 108], and if this applies to human pregnancy would imply that infants born prematurely have an under-developed capacity for creatine synthesis and might therefore be at risk of becoming creatine deficient.

Another group at risk of becoming vitamin B12 deficient is the elderly due to a greater prevalence of gastric atrophy and hypochlorhydria, which both lead to an insufficient absorption of food bound vitamin B12 (Baik & Russell, 1999).

However, our results imply that reduced expression of Cubn might contribute to the impaired absorption of vitamin B12 in the intestine and that this decreased expression puts the elderly at risk of becoming vitamin B12 deficient.

Those cold, dense layers creep slowly northward from their source in the Antarctic Circumpolar Region, becoming nearly anoxic (oxygen-deficient) en route.

This phenomenon was even evident within single cells at the earliest time points (arrows Figure 3B i,ii,iv,v)), becoming more dramatic within Pten-deficient cells contained within hyperplastic regions (arrows Figure 3B iii,vi)).