Beriberi killed many. Blame white polished rice.
the cheap imported rice was polished, so the poor who ate it often suffered from it here in Manila, especially leading to infant mortality NEJM 1913.
we sell organic brown rice, but the way
the Philippines stopped the BeriBeri epidemic of the early 1900s was because a Pharmacist recognized the problem and found a cure: :
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