Posted on May 26, 2019

Eating Way Too Much Rice Almost Doomed Japan's Imperial Navy

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Eating Way Too Much Rice Almost Doomed Japan's Imperial Navy

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CW5 Jack Cardwell

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Great read this morning.

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Lt Col Charlie Brown

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I read about this elsewhere. Beriberi was eventually a fatal disease. If you ate brown or unpolished rice instead of white you didn't get the disease.

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Eating Way Too Much Rice Almost Doomed Japan's Imperial Navy

Eating Way Too Much Rice Almost Doomed Japan's Imperial Navy

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