Word: thiamin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other deficiency diseases can be equally deadly. Rickets, which results from a lack of vitamin D, can produce soft, deformed bones in children. Beriberi-caused by too little of the thiamin normally found in vegetables, liver, pork, eggs and whole grains-affects the heart, the circulatory system and the brain. Its victims are unable to remember and prone to confabulation, the concocting of stories to fill memory gaps. A lack of niacin (commonly found in brown rice, fish and meat) can produce pellagra, a deficiency disease characterized by the "four Ds": dermatitis, diarrhea, dementia and death...