Re: Single nutrient malnutrition...

Johnny1a <shermanlee1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> (Some of the effects are well known, of course, like scurvy with
> vitamin C or anemia with iron, but what about the other nutrients, and
> what sort of early warning signs might exist?

Pellagra (deficiency of Niacin) and Beri-Beri (deficiency of Thiamine/B1)
are two other very well-known ones

There's also some good information on vitamins at the Linux Pauling
Institute, http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/vitamins.html
including
discussions of the effects of deficiency.

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