Article: Beriberi, white rice and vitamin B. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)

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 countries across the world and particularly in Asia. This book is mostly about beriberi of the heart and the peripheral nervous system; often people in robust health were worse affected than those in ...

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