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020 _a9780313354755 (hard copy : alk. paper)
020 _a0313354758 (hard copy : alk. paper)
020 _a9780313354762 (ebook)
020 _a0313354766 (ebook)
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050 4 _aQP 771
_bF73.2009
100 1 _aFrankenburg, Frances Rachel
245 1 0 _aVitamin discoveries and disasters :
_bhistory, science, and controversies /
_cFrances Rachel Frankenburg.
260 _aSanta Barbara, Calif. :
_bPraeger/ABC-CLIO,
_c2009.
300 _axiii, 143 p. :
_bil., fotos byn ;
_c25 cm.
440 0 _aPraeger series on contemporary health and living
504 _aIncluye referencias bibliográficas (p. [133]-136) e índice.
505 0 _aRats that don't grow and have sore eyes : vitamin A (retinol), the anti-night blindness vitamin -- Soldiers in pain and staggering chickens : vitamin B1 (thiamine), the anti-beriberi vitamin -- Dermatitis, diarrhea, dementia, death : vitamin B3 (niacin), the anti-pellagra vitamin -- Deadly anemia, sludge, and the Nobel prize for a woman : vitamins B9 (folate) and B12 (cobalamin), the two anti-anemia vitamins -- Sailors, scurvy, the guinea pig, and the Nobel prize : vitamin C (ascorbic acid), the anti-scurvy vitamin -- Soft bones, lack of light, and the "sunshine hormone" : vitamin D (calcitriol), the anti-rickets vitamin -- Can you have too much of a good thing? : toxicity from vitamins -- Conclusion : victories, but lingering concerns.
650 0 _aVitamins
_xHistory
650 4 _aVitaminas -
_xHistoria
650 0 _aVitamins in human nutrition
_xHistory
650 4 _aVitaminas en la nutricion humana -
_xHistoria
650 0 _aAvitaminosis
_xHistory
650 4 _aAvitaminosis -
_xHistoria
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_gRonald RUIZ