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Nutrition, being a basic of human survival, has been sovled for millenias. Humans were mostly subsistence cultures for millennia (which means a period of a tho
by DoreenMichele 6y ago
Nutrition, being a basic of human survival, has been sovled for millenias.
Humans were mostly subsistence cultures for millennia (which means a period of a thousand years, so you are saying we solved this thousands of years ago). We routinely starved to death and only recently figured out something called "nutrients" exist in food. It isn't that long ago we discovered Vitamin C as the cure for scurvy and it's the reason we have nicknames like "limeys."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limey
That's from the 1850s. Not from two thousand years ago.
- Aerroon 6y agoAnother example of a nutritional disease is beriberi. It plagued the Japanese Navy in the 19th century: >Beriberi was a serious problem in the Japanese navy: Sailors fell ill an average of four times a year in the period 1878 to 1881, and 35% were cases of beriberi. It was caused by a vitamin B1 deficiency. Sailors were eating mainly white rice (polished) rather than brown rice (unpolished) while underway. A more varied diet eventually fixed the problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiamine_deficiency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiamine_deficiency
- DoreenMichele 6y agoWe are currently researching the role of various nutrients in vulnerability to Covid. (Vitamin D and zinc seem to be the most salient nutrients for trying to reduce vulnerability, which is not the same thing as "curing" it.) We have barely scratched the surface on the topic of nutrition and disease.