A mild tremor went through the blogosphere when Coca Cola announced that it would soon re-introduce Coke containing cane sugar in the USA. In recent times, Coke USA has used sugar derived from corn starch, so-called High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS), rather than sugar isolated from sugar cane. Many applauded Coca Cola’s move, and proclaimed it to be beneficial to the nations’s health.The consumer-in-chief D. J. Trump had urged this move earlier in the year.… Read the rest “Not-So-High Fructose Corn Syrup”
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Struggling with vitamin A deficiency
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The important micronutrient Vitamin A
The first vitamin deficiency was identified toward the end of the 19th century by Dutch medical scientists in the Dutch East Indies, today’s Indonesia. They discovered that a lack of the vitamin we call thiamin, or vitamin B1, caused beriberi, a deadly neurological disease. More vitamins were discovered subsequently, and by 1950 there was a list of 13 that are essential for humans. One of these, the ‘fat-soluble’ vitamin A, proved to be an ‘anti-infective’ agent; it reduced infections in new mothers.… Read the rest “Struggling with vitamin A deficiency”