The Modernization Disease Syndrome as Substrate Pellagra-Beriberi: A New Diagnostic Entity: Synergistic Malnutrition From Interacting Food Modifications
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Today's multiple food manipulations may interact to produce a wide-spread difficult-toidentify synergistic malnutrition presenting as a highly idiosyncratic substrate-cat alystantinutrient vitamin-resistant Hoffer-type pellagra-beriberi mainly afflicting primates and accounting for the medically dominant modernization disease syndrome as a variant of the classical catalytic B vitamin-sensitive Goldberger-Eijkman-Takaki pellagra-beriber
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