Environmental toxins: who should be concerned?(Brief Article)

From: Nutrition Health Review | Date: June 22, 2002| Author: Zimmerman, Phillip | Copyright information

Some areas of nutrition are virtually universally agreed upon. All experts would hold that if an individual were to be fed a diet (artificially constructed) that would be totally lacking in vitamin C, vitamin [B.sub.1], and vitamin [B.sub.3], there would be a virtual certainty of scurvy, beriberi, and pellagra.

As a rule, I suggest that individuals who do not have specific health concerns in the areas of breathing difficulty, pregnancy, autoimmune disease, rare infection...

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