Beriberi, White Rice, and Vitamin B A Disease, a Cause, and a Cure

"The history of nutrition presents the difficult task of distilling the diverse disciplines of agriculture, chemistry, physiology, medicine, epidemiology, public health, and social history. The most influential voice in this challenging field is Kenneth Carpenter, who previously contributed enlightening works on scurvy and on protein and energy. Once again, he makes the history of another important nutritional problem readily accessible to the general reader....The lessons behind the eradication of this once common vitamin deficiency should be known more widely through this well researched and thoughtful work."Carpenter, Kenneth J. is the author of 'Beriberi, White Rice, and Vitamin B A Disease, a Cause, and a Cure' with ISBN 9780520220539 and ISBN 0520220536.