ISBN:
9783318021899
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (XV, 207 Seiten)
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Series Statement:
World review of nutrition and dietetics vol. 104
Series Statement:
World review of nutrition and dietetics
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Semba, Richard D. The vitamin A story
DDC:
613.2/86
Keywords:
Vitamin A Deficiency history
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History, 19th Century
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Night Blindness history
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Vitamin A therapeutic use
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History, 19th Century
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Night Blindness history
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Vitamin A Deficiency history
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Vitamin A therapeutic use
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Vitamin-A-Mangel
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Geschichte
Abstract:
This book shows how vitamin A deficiency – before the vitamin was known to scientists – affected millions of people throughout history. It is a story of sailors and soldiers, penniless mothers, orphaned infants, and young children left susceptible to blindness and fatal infections. We also glimpse the fortunate ones who, with ample vitamin A-rich food, escaped this elusive stalker. Why were people going blind and dying? To unravel this puzzle, scientists around the world competed over the course of a century. Their persistent efforts led to the identification of vitamin A and its essential role in health. As a primary focus of today’s international public health efforts, vitamin A has saved hundreds of thousands of lives. But, we discover, they could save many more were it not for obstacles erected by political and ideological zealots who lack a historical perspective of the problem.
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