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Vitamin discoveries and disasters : history, science, and controversies
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Vitamin discoveries and disasters : history, science, and controversies

Author: Frances Rachel Frankenburg
Publisher: Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger/ABC-CLIO, ©2009.
Series: Praeger series on contemporary health and living.
Edition/Format: Book : Biography : English
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Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Frances Rachel Frankenburg
ISBN: 9780313354755 0313354758 9780313354762 0313354766
OCLC Number: 317249479
Description: xiii, 143 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Rats that don't grow and have sore eyes : vitamin A (retinol), the anti-night blindness vitamin -- Soldiers in pain and staggering chickens : vitamin B1 (thiamine), the anti-beriberi vitamin -- Dermatitis, diarrhea, dementia, death : vitamin B3 (niacin), the anti-pellagra vitamin -- Deadly anemia, sludge, and the Nobel prize for a woman : vitamins B9 (folate) and B12 (cobalamin), the two anti-anemia vitamins -- Sailors, scurvy, the guinea pig, and the Nobel prize : vitamin C (ascorbic acid), the anti-scurvy vitamin -- Soft bones, lack of light, and the "sunshine hormone" : vitamin D (calcitriol), the anti-rickets vitamin -- Can you have too much of a good thing? : toxicity from vitamins -- Conclusion : victories, but lingering concerns.
Series Title: Praeger series on contemporary health and living.
Responsibility: Frances Rachel Frankenburg.

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