Vitamins: Plants and Human Health
Since humans cannot synthesize our own vitamins, we depend on the plants and animals we eat to provide them. Vitamin deficiencies cause diseases such as beri beri and scurvy. Dr. Joseph Goldberger discovered the cause of pellagra and showed that a poor diet caused the disease. His experiments on Mississippi prisoners and his research correlating poverty among mill workers and tenant farmers with pellagra outbreaks led Goldberger to battle for social change. Learn more about Goldberger and his work in this website.
Visit the Dr. Joseph Goldberger and the War on Pellagra web site
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