Re: Single nutrient malnutrition...

On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:02:54 +0000 (UTC), Remus Shepherd <remus@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
>> Suppose you had otherwise healthy humans in a situation where they
>> were missing just one key nutrient in an otherwise adequate diet. For
>> ex, for some reason they're getting no, say, vitamin B or no zinc
>> (never mind why). What would specific sort of symptoms be, what would
>> be the first sign and how long would the various effects take for most
>> of the major nutrients?
>
>   Depends entirely on the nutrient.  _Destiny's Road_ is a novel by
>Larry Niven about a colony dealing with severe potassium deficiency.   
>It's not one of Niven's best novels, and I hear that he got the symptoms
>somewhat wrong, but it sounds like an example of what you're looking for.

He got the symptoms so wrong that no one who knows them would ever have 
suspected that's what he was trying to depict.


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chuk