Author: MalcolmMalcolm Date: Jul 13, 2006 08:44
"Perplexed in Peoria" sbcglobal.net> wrote> "Malcolm" btinternet.com> wrote
>>> A Westerner is unlikely to have a serious deficiency of
>> anything. ...
>
> Not universally true. A mild B-12 (I think) deficiency in pregnant women
> significantly increases the risk of birth defects.
>
From almost nothing to almost nothing.
You generate a scary headline when we are still talking of a risk in the
millions, by saying the risk is twenty-fold increased.
>
> The enrichment of
> milk with vitamin D and salt with iodine should be considered significant
> triumphs of 20th century public health. And anyone trying to live on a
> mostly vegetarian diet (for ethical or cardiovascular reasons) is either
> going to have to eat a LOT of beans, or take amino acid supplements.
>
Wheat and other cereals are low in lysine, whilst pulses are low in cysteine ...
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