GEO 509 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Red Meat, Brix, Pellagra
27 Dec 2015
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Pellagra: a deficiency disease cause by a lack of nicotinic acid. Was not a disease suffered by native americans. Native americans processed the corn in a way that makes the niacin accessible. Soaked corn in a bath of lye(water mixed with ashes) If you give sailors lime/lemon, they wont get scurvy. Particularly effective with dealing with certain kinds of cancers (breast cancers) Level of breast cancer of german women in the east was lower than the level among west german women. Xiao shua is an epidemiologist and she conducted a study that suggested the potentially powerful effects of soy. Looked at blueberries and their possible reduction in breast cancer. 38% of british men were physically incapable of going for battle. Main cause of inability to be in combat was a century of industrialization. Use of land on cheap food that was nutritionally unfavourable. Looked at men and women and the consumption of red meat among both sexes.
