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THE problems of storage and transport of food have troubled men ever since they began to crowd into cities and to attempt to live at any density in northern latitudes. A diet of the cereals that made these developments possible is obviously monotonous ; less obviously, but as inevitably, it is inadequate to maintain health. The three chief deficiency diseases that are recorded as causes of deaths—scurvy, beriberi and pellagra—are associated with diets consisting too exclusively of the three great cereals—wheat, rice and maize. In England scurvy was common until the introduction of potatoes and root crops, which supply vitamin C directly to human beings, or feed animals that will provide fresh meat and milk.
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FOOD STORAGE AND TRANSPORT. Nature 150, 217–219 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/150217a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/150217a0