It's All in the Diet

The Jerusalem Report | June 28, 2004| | Copyright

Goldberger's War: The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader - By Alan M. Kraut - Hill and Wang 313 pp; $25 How a solitary scientist unraveled the mystery of pellagra, the painful and often- fatal disease that ravaged the American South in the first half of the 20th century THREE MILLION CASES OF, and some 100,000 deaths by, pellagra, an illness characterized by painful and disfiguring lesions of the skin and internal mucous membranes, were recorded in the United States alone from 1906 until the enrichment of grain foods began, in the 1940s. Alan M. Kraut's thorough and readable ...

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