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Vitamins and deficiency diseases
From Lind's 1747 scurvy trial and Eijkman's 1897 beriberi work to Funk's 'vitamine' of 1912, diseases were traced to missing food factors.
Open in the interactive tree →Eijkman and Hopkins shared the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the antineuritic and growth-stimulating vitamins. Governments later mandated adding some vitamins to staple foods such as flour or milk to prevent deficiencies.
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- Feeding 10 billion peopleopenFeeding everyone well means meeting vitamin needs, not only calories