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Also changes in the way corn was processed after the Civil War exacerbated pellagra.
by selimthegrim 5y ago
Also changes in the way corn was processed after the Civil War exacerbated pellagra.
- carapace 5y agoAh... I hadn't heard about that: > Pellagra was first reported in 1902 in the United States, and has "caused more deaths than any other nutrition-related disease in American history", reaching epidemic proportions in the American South during the early 1900s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellagra#United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellagra#United_States