10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PELLAGRA»
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Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease
He used nicotinic acid (niacin) with good results in 68% of 500 cases, but
pellagra or niacin deficiency alone is not a probable cause of this syndrome.
Pantothenic acid was useful in some patients, and experimental deficiency of
pantothenic ...
Maurice Edward Shils, Moshe Shike, 2006
3
Food supply and
pellagra incidence in 73 South Carolina farm ...
It was found that the 14 unaided families whose food supply was pellagra
preventing throughout the year used, on the average, 2% cups of milk per person
per day, about 3 ounces of fruit and succulent vegetables, and about 3 ounces of
lean ...
Hazel Katherine Stiebeling, Hazel Edith Munsell, 1932
4
Silent Victories : The History and Practice of Public Health ...
Two wealthy philanthropists, Colonel Robert Thompson of New York City and
J. H. McFadden of Philadelphia funded a research expedition for the
investigation of pellagra. The Thompson-McFadden Pellagra Commission
centered many of ...
Epidemiology Program Center for Disease Control John W. Ward Director of the Office of Scientific Health and Communications, Christian Warren Professor of History New York Academy of Medicine, 2006
5
Nutrition in Public Health: Principles, Policies, and Practice
Box 4.6 Goldberger's Observations Goldberger observed that people who
contracted pellagra subsisted on a limited diet of pork fat, corn bread, and
molasses, whereas those who did not contract the disease had more varied diets.
In the first ...
6
The Missing Gene: Psychiatry, Heredity, and the Fruitless ...
It therefore becomes clear that an early 20th century pellagra adoption study
carried out in the southern US would have been plagued by potential
environmental confounds relating to an adoptee's biological background. And
although we now ...
7
Disaster and Human History: Case Studies in Nature, Society ...
At the same time, the South adopted new food production technologies that
actually exacerbated the pellagra problem. Soon after the turn of the century,
southern millers adopted a new machine for grinding maize, the “Beall
degerminator,” ...
8
Herb, Nutrient, and Drug Interactions: Clinical Implications ...
Ishii and Nishihara116 investigated 106 necropsy cases of tuberculosis and
diagnosed eight cases of pellagra, on the grounds of neuropathological findings
and retrospective study of clinical data. None of these patients had been
diagnosed ...
Mitchell Bebel Stargrove, Jonathan Treasure, Dwight L. McKee, 2008
9
Handbook of Vitamins, Fourth Edition
Summary Acknowledgments References 223 223 223 HISTORICAL
PERSPECTIVE The identification of niacin as a vitamin resulted from an urgent
need to cure pellagra, which ravaged low socioeconomic groups of the
Southeastern United ...
Robert B. Rucker, Janos Zempleni, John W. Suttie, 2007
10
Color Atlas of Oral Diseases
Pellagra is a deficiency of nicotinic acid. The clinical features of this rare disease
are gastrointestinal manifestations (such as abdominal pain, diarrhea,
achlorhydria), nervous system manifestations (such as apathy, restlessness,
anxiety, ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PELLAGRA»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
pellagra is used in the context of the following news items.
Health Benefits of Corn
Niacin deficiency leads to Pellagra; a disease characterized by diarrhea, dementia and dermatitis that is commonly observed in malnourished ... «Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, Jul 15»
Finally, a WWII POW is home to rest in Illinois — after 73 years
U.S. Army Private Arthur Herman “Buddy” Kelder died of diphtheria, pellagra (severe malnutrition) and malaria on November 19, 1942 in a ... «Inquirer.net, Jul 15»
The incredibly important B vitamins
While helping to prevent overt symptoms of B vitamin deficiency diseases such as pellagra (B-3 deficiency) or beri-beri (B-1 deficiency), they ... «Gettysburg Times, Jul 15»
Reboot your body
Many a time, deficiency of vitamin B3 results in a condition called pellagra, which results in dry, scaly, cracked skin, evident most often as ... «Livemint, Jul 15»
Green Thumb: Horticultural horrors on display at 'Wicked Plants'
Corn, when consumed in place of all other grains, can contribute to a niacin deficiency that causes pellagra, a skin disease that is fatal if not ... «Memphis Commercial Appeal, Jul 15»
Investigating dietary supplements and the industry
She uses some well known stories about scurvy-ridden sailors and pellagra-inflicted prisoners, and some less familiar tales, such as the ... «The Pharmaceutical Journal, Jul 15»
Stirring the pot: These summer reads have plenty of food for thought
Although it's easy now to take vitamins for granted, when people still suffered from beriberi and pellagra, that was far from the case. Tragically ... «Quad-Cities Online, Jun 15»
Ten Foods to Stay Nourished This Ramadan (Part 2)
... in maintaining heart health. Interestingly, both beriberi and pellagra were unknown conditions before the introduction of white rice (4,5). «Onislam.net, Jun 15»
Scientists hail African vegetables as the new superfoods
Was it not doctors who denied that pellagra and scurvy were nutritional deficiencies, pushed thalidomide instead of Vitamin B6 and today push ... «Daily Mail, Jun 15»
COLUMN: New picture books are waiting to be read
Finally, a substantial nonfiction book by Gail Jarrow, “Red Madness,” explores Pellagra, the devastating illness caused by poor diet. This is the ... «Crow River Media, Jun 15»
