Word: pellagra
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...totalitarian rule. In northern China, Becker joined a Chinese shopkeeper to hunt for refugees, for whom the Chinese government was paying 60? bounties. They found one near a garbage dump. "As the shopkeeper fished around in his pocket for some plastic twine, a dirt-covered face scabrous with pellagra that looked about fifty years old shrunk back into the shadows of a hood made from grey sackcloth, like a medieval leper," he writes. The woman, who was in fact only 28, had crossed the border in a final effort to avoid starvation. As a prisoner, she would be sent back...
...years, doctors advised their patients that the only thing taking multivitamins does is give them expensive urine. After all, true vitamin deficiencies, such as scurvy and pellagra, are practically unheard of in industrialized countries. Now it seems those doctors may have been wrong. The results of a growing number of studies suggest that even a modest vitamin shortfall can be harmful to your health. Although proof of the benefits of multivitamins is still far from certain, the few dollars you spend on them is probably a good investment...
They stumble along on dusty dirt paths. Emaciated, frail and ravaged by hunger, they are on a desperate journey for food. Some are blind, a result of vitamin A deficiency, or sick with pellagra, diarrhea, cholera and various starvation-related diseases. Diplomats and relief officials estimate that as many as 150,000 have walked through the desolate bush of northern Mozambique into eastern Zimbabwe in recent months. For every one who has made it to the border, another is believed to have died along...
...president of the National Academy of Sciences and biochemist who earned international recognition for his discoveries on the nutritional causes of disease; of cancer; in Boston. Under Handler's direction, the academy sponsored hundreds of studies on drugs, food and the environment. His investigations into the link between pellagra and vitamin B deficiencies helped erase the disease in rural areas of the South...
...natural defense system against infection; crowded together with inadequate sanitation and nonexistent medical care, the starving-as the refugee experience proves-become prey to typhoid, cholera, tuberculosis and malaria. The absence of essential vitamins or minerals can also bring on the so-called deficiency diseases: rickets, beriberi and pellagra. Sometimes, the hungry simply lose the will to live...