Beriberi used in a sentence

Beriberi in a sentence as a noun

Then we took a wrong turn at Crewe and ended up in Archangelsk twelve days later with beriberi.

For example: "Barley seems to contain some kind of chemical that kills the germs that cause beriberi."

So millions die unpleasantly of something not much harder to fix than fixing beriberi by putting barley in the diet. At least not much harder to fix from a science point of view.

> Sometimes the medicine was hokey, but other times it worked—as was the case with azuki and barley supplements for beriberi. We can find, using science, if some folk medicine is hokey or useful.

It would be lying if Takaki knew that beriberi wasn't caused by germs. But back in the 1870s, he didn't know that. He only knew that something in barley was helping to prevent beriberi, and he was in fact mistaken about what that something was.

Org/wiki/Hierarchy_of_evidence In terms of human nutrition we know how to prevent acute diseases caused by deficiencies like kwashiorkor, beriberi, scurvy, Rickets, etc. And we know that excess consumption causes weight gain.

For several thousand years, beriberi was endemic in Asia, because polished white rice was a staple food. What is the Ayurveda treatment for handle that disease, and was it developed before or after modern medical researchers identified that it was nutrition deficiency?

Even when the harvest came through, staying healthy through the winter and spring was a major problem, with all sorts of vitamin deficiency diseases like scurvy, beriberi, pellagra and rickets endemic.

The Japanese army rejected the solution The article had a one sentence paragraph about this attitude: Stubborn and blind to the truth, the army was marching towards its biggest beriberi disaster ever. I love those first words Stubborn and blind to the truth Those words so perfectly describe so much of what's happening in the world today.

If you have kwashiorkor or beriberi or scurvy or pellagra, it is unlikely that you could be effectively treated with Soylent, because it is formulated to satisfy daily needs, rather than to correct a deficiency that may have taken many months to manifest symptoms. It is designed to be a complete food, using a recipe.

The Japanese problems with beriberi are entirely consistent with other medical problems. The essay touched on the British navy problems with scurvy, but left how how for centuries people thought it was the acid in citrus which had the curative properties, not the vitamin C. Limes were a solution, but they switched to another lime tree that wasn't a good source of vitamin C, and used processing techniques that destroyed the vitamin C. Nor are the problems limited to Japan.

Takaki most likely had to contend with thinking his cure for beriberi was similarly "monumentally stupid" and "based on poor 'science' and scaremongering", which prevented an objective examination of his experiments.

But the beriberi story seems more just like people foolishly ignoring an empirical cure due to, well, having a contradicting theory; it doesn't seem to have the same component of "here's a series of coincidences that seems to undermine the empirical evidence for the cure in the first place". Also, note that while Takaki correctly identified beriberi as a deficiency disease, he misidentified it as a protein deficiency!