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If someone ate nothing but fruit could they develop kwashiorkor?
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Sure : Sure you could! Kwashiorkor is a disease of poor countries, we just don't have is among kids here in the US. BUT theoretically if you ate only fruit indefinitely, you would get it eventually.
Answered 4/12/2015
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