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Article: NUTRITIONISTS ASK HELP TO EASE 3 DEFICIENCIES
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 25, 1988
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PROVIDENCE - Efforts to address just three nutritional
deficiencies -- of vitamin A, iodine and iron -- would go a long
way toward reducing disease and death among millions in developing
countries, say nutritionists who addressed a recent conference on
hunger at Brown University.
Past efforts have largely eliminated the one-time scourges of
scurvy, beriberi and pellagra, said Nevin S. Scrimshaw of the Food,
Nutrition and Poverty Program at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. As a result of programs that supplied Third World
countries with quantities of vitamins C, B and niacin, he said,
those old-world plagues are now largely unheard of.
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