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Back when people would regularly die of pellagra? Diets have absolutely improved since then.
by weberer 2y ago
Back when people would regularly die of pellagra? Diets have absolutely improved since then.
- heyoni 2y agoYou can’t overturn that argument with a one dimensional quip about fortified foods not existing. Imagine a diet with less sugar, more whole foods _and_ fortification?
- TeaBrain 2y agoThey were almost certainly referring from a Western perspective. People in the West were not regularly dying from pellagra in the mid-20th century. In the US, the disease had become almost non-existent by the 1950s.