Beriberi, white rice and vitamin B. (Book Reviews).(Book Review) From: Nutrition & Dietetics: The Journal of the DieticiansAssociation of Australia | Date: March 1, 2003| Author: Wood, Beverley | COPYRIGHT 2003 Dietitians Association of Australia. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Carpenter KJ, University of California Press, Berkeley, 2000, 282 pages, $83.00, ISBN 0-520-22053-6

Kenneth Carpenter is Emeritus Professor of Nutrition at the University of California in Berkeley, and his publications include The history of scurvy and vitamin C, (Cambridge University Press, 1986). Beriberi, white rice and vitamin B is an historical treatise on vitamin B1.

Thiamin deficiency once killed thousands and perhaps millions of people in different co...

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