Beri-Beri Written by: Sage Simmons
Beri-Beri Swelling Beri-Beri is another lack of something deficiency.. like Scurvy! We will be focusing on Japan.... because that's where I learned that Beri-Beri was... well attacked... it was very sad.. :'( Anyways! Lets say that there was a family in Japan who loved sushi and white rice... And they were very wealthy... their son was very smart.. Let's say his name was Hirano Yasushi. Hirano only ate white rice because that was cool at the time B-) Anyways, and one day he was numb in his legs... his heart beat was really fast and his tongue swelled... he had pain everywhere and he started to have mental confusion. He wasn't quite sure what this was... but his family didn't quite get sick until... his younger sister started to get the same symptoms... Lets go back a little and talk about a guy who found it was a food deficiency.. His name was Takaki Kanehiro, He found that it was because they weren't taking a lot of B1 vitamin! WHAT!! Yeah tak...

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