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Bonus: The Great Protein Fiasco

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Why Do We Need Protein to Prevent Malnutrition?

This is from john knott's article. He says, as for treatment, williams tried varied diets without success. Combinations with butter eggs, tomato, orange liver, marmite, yeast, beemax, iron and arsenic all failed to reverse the symptoms. Oh, arsenic didn't do the trick. Ida, weirdly, werheavy metals not the key. Interesting, the only food that seemed to work. And then, in only a few cases, was tinned milk, sweetened condensed milk with cod liver oil and malt to be the most successful line of treatment. This is actually how we get recommended daily allowances of, like, various nutrients. Ye.

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