Word: osteomalacia
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...sesame or peanut oil. People who have a little money eat spinach, cabbage, string beans, kohlrabi or turnips. Their diet is deficient not only in energy content, but in calcium (necessary for bones and teeth), protein (essential for tissues), vitamins A, C and D. Hence many suffer from osteomalacia (softening of the bones), scurvy, anemia, severe rickets, infantile tetany (convulsions), horny skin, tuberculosis. Unlike the U.S., North China has little vitamin B deficiency, for the roughly milled flours are rich in vitamin B elements...
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