This was also back when many deficiency-induced diseases like scurvy, rickets, beriberi, and pellagra were common, says ...

In modern Japan, beriberi (or thiamin deficiency) became a public health problem that cut across all social boundaries, afflicting even the Meiji Emperor. During an age of empire building for the ...

Weakened by nutritional diseases such as beriberi and pellagra, the POWs either wasted away or became susceptible to dysentery or any of a host of tropical infections. He solved these problems ...

This is particularly true of vitamin B1 (thiamine), a deficiency of which causes numerous nervous and cardiovascular diseases, such as beriberi. Vitamin B1 in rice is lost during processing Rice ...

criminal neglect (such as deckhands dying of diseases like beriberi)" and general abuse of workers. "All stem typically from captains and companies above them looking to cut corners for cost ...

These noodles are also high in vitamins B1 and B2, necessary for combatting a common ailment of the period known as beriberi. All of these features translated into the evolution of the superstition of ...

The heat was intolerable, flies rose out of the latrines and covered the prisoner's food, and malaria, dysentery, beriberi and a host of other diseases swept through the crowds of men. They began ...

Micronutrient deficiency can lead to acute diseases with exotic names like scurvy, pellagra, and beriberi. Deficiency diseases were common in the U.S. until the 1940s, when the FDA-mandated ...

Based on the patient’s clinical course, gastrointestinal beriberi was diagnosed. Significance of results This case shows that TD may cause anorexia. Many patients who receive palliative care have ...

Vitamins B, C and D, for instance, were all discovered as a result of research on diseases (beriberi, scurvy and rickets, respectively) that plagued various groups of people from the 1700s through ...

In 1910, Suzuki succeeded in extracting a water-soluble complex of micronutrients from rice bran and named it aberic acid, which had the effect of curing beriberi – a deficiency of thiamine ...