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Who was the doctor that discovered that people that ate corn got pellagra?
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What group first discovered the benefits of corn?
the Seminols
Can people eat deer corn?
Yes, it seems made into a corn meal that we can...
What is the history of corn?
Corn, known to much of the world as maize, is a cereal grain domesticated by indigenous peoples in Central America as many as 80,000 years ago. The ancestor of corn may be a Mexican grass called teosinte, and early corn may have looked more like oats, with each individual kernel covered in a husk. The Olmec and Mayans cultivated corn throughout central and southern Mexico. The corn we know today was developed over the centuries. The leafy stalk produces ears that contain fruits called kernels. Between 1700 and 1250 BC, corn spread through much of the Americas. Native American people thought of corn as a gift of the gods and included it in their religious ceremonies. They called corn, squash, and beans the "three sisters," and they planted them together to form the staples of their diet. Native Americans processed corn by soaking and cooking in an alkaline solution, usually using solutions of lime (calcium hydroxide, not the citrus fruit) and ash (potassium hydroxide). This process made the corn easier to grind, improved its nutritional value, flavor and aroma, and reduced toxins. Corn was introduced to Europe by Christopher Columbus, and it was grown in Spain as early as 1498. Due to its high yields and adaptability, it quickly spread through Europe, and later to Africa and India. Portuguese colonists grew corn in the Congo as early as 1560, and it remains a major food crop in parts of Africa. Unfortunately, the process of soaking the corn in lime water did not accompany the grain to Europe and beyond, perhaps because the Europeans already had more efficient milling processes for hulling and grinding grain mechanically. Corn's molecular structure makes at least half of its niacin unavailable to humans. Without alkaline processing, corn is much less nutritious, and pellagra, or niacin deficiency disease, struck many populations who depended on corn as a staple. Pellagra victims suffer from skin eruptions, digestive and nervous disturbances, and mental deterioration. Like many deficiency diseases, it is entirely avoidable by eating a varied, balanced diet. The sweet corn we know today was discovered in 1779 in an Iroquois village along the Susquehanna River in central New York, but European Americans didn't really start eating corn in large quantities until the 1840s. Today corn is the second most plentiful cereal grain in the world behind rice.
What did the people of tenochtitlan eat?
Tenochtitlan People Eat Corn
What crop changed the native Americans forever?
Corn/ maize Maize- a earlyer verison of corn. now days people call it corn. Back then they called is Maize
What did people think caused pellagra 4 answer?
people of the south thought pellagra was caused by eating corn, or that it was a contagious disease carried by insects or bacteria. Pellagra is caused by lack of certain diets, but people in america don't have to worry about it today, because all the vitamins used to prevent pellagra are in flour.
Pellagra was first seen in populations where the dietary staple was?
Corn
What was drgoldbergers hypothesis about the cause of pellegra?
Pellagra was caused by a poor diet or nutrition of corn bread, pork and syrup
Why was the rate of pellagra lower in South America and Mexico as opposed to the US in the early 1900s?
The traditional food preparation method of corn (maize), nixtamalization, by native New World cultivators who had domesticated corn required treatment of the grain with lime, an alkali. The lime treatment makes niacin nutritionally available and reduces the chance of developing pellagra. Pellagra was once endemic in the poorer states of the US South, like Mississippi and Alabama because it was not nixtamalized and the populations who ate corn in such places developed a severe deficiency of niacin.
How did the first Europeans discover corn?
When Christopher Columbus sailed and "discovered" America, he also discovered corn and brought it back to Europe.
What did dr goldenberger do to show that pellagra was caused by poor nutrition?
Dr. Goldberger took a bunch of healthy prisoners (prisoners without Pellagra) to a sanitary building with screens on the doors and windows so no insects could get in. The building was cleaned every week and the prisoners diet was changed to one consisting of corn and fatback (a piece of meat with a bunch of fat). After a week or two seven out of nine prisoners had Pellagra.
A bushel of corn can feed how many people?
It kind of depends on how it's prepared, but if it were the only component of a meal, and if it were made into a simple cornmeal mush, for example, one bushel of shelled, dried dent corn should be able to feed at least 50 people. This allows for a little more than one pound of corn per person. Caution should be taken to prevent the onset of pellagra, a niacin deficiency caused by using corn as a diet staple without proper preparation.
A low-protein diet in which corn is a principal food has been found to cause a deficiency of what vitamin?
There are multiple nutrients a person would be deprived of by having this type of diet and if they fear they are having complications due to this they should probably go see a doctor ASAP. Corn is considered roughage (high in fiber) and will not supply a human being, or much else for that matter, with efficient vitamins and nutrients.
What group first discovered the benefits of corn?
the Seminols
Who discovered renewable energy?
The first people who thought, "I could get that river to turn a paddle wheel, to turn a millstone, to grind my corn".
What is pallerga?
pellagra is a infectious disease caused by eating corn and only corn and it was a nutritional issue and Dr.Goldberger knew that it was a nutritional issue so he tried it on kids that had it. i can't believe i know all of this and I'm only 8! you al are sad but I'm smarter ten you!
What are the 3 crops that George Washington discovered?
corn beans cherry
