Cornfed usually came with the extra bonus of pellagra in the 40s lol
March 6, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Cornfed usually came with the extra bonus of pellagra in the 40s lol
"what is Pellagra"
October 4, 2025 at 5:54 PM
"what is Pellagra"
Pellagra: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellagra
Beriberi: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiamin...
Scurvy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scurvy
Rickets: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickets
Vitamin A deficiency: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin...
Vitamin deficiencies in general: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin...
Beriberi: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiamin...
Scurvy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scurvy
Rickets: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickets
Vitamin A deficiency: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin...
Vitamin deficiencies in general: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin...
Pellagra - Wikipedia
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November 16, 2024 at 6:49 PM
Pellagra: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellagra
Beriberi: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiamin...
Scurvy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scurvy
Rickets: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickets
Vitamin A deficiency: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin...
Vitamin deficiencies in general: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin...
Beriberi: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiamin...
Scurvy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scurvy
Rickets: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickets
Vitamin A deficiency: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin...
Vitamin deficiencies in general: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin...
It's all fun and games until RFK jr. brings back pellagra
May 1, 2026 at 2:41 AM
It's all fun and games until RFK jr. brings back pellagra
guess we're going back to the good old days of pellagra, rubella, cholera infantum and formaldehyde milk
April 18, 2025 at 3:17 AM
guess we're going back to the good old days of pellagra, rubella, cholera infantum and formaldehyde milk
My only comment on the Great Corn Slurry debacle is that enriched and nixtamalized corn is the reason pellagra rates fell from more than 3 million and more than 100,000 deaths between 1906 and 1940, to nearly eliminated by the 50s.
Pellagra was epidemic. We ended it by adding niacin.
Pellagra was epidemic. We ended it by adding niacin.
June 17, 2026 at 8:22 AM
My only comment on the Great Corn Slurry debacle is that enriched and nixtamalized corn is the reason pellagra rates fell from more than 3 million and more than 100,000 deaths between 1906 and 1940, to nearly eliminated by the 50s.
Pellagra was epidemic. We ended it by adding niacin.
Pellagra was epidemic. We ended it by adding niacin.
Fine, I'll admit it. I was the one who caused the Cahokia civilization to collapse. Sure, everyone died of pellagra because of my advice, but you have to understand that I thought nixtamalization was woke
August 26, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Fine, I'll admit it. I was the one who caused the Cahokia civilization to collapse. Sure, everyone died of pellagra because of my advice, but you have to understand that I thought nixtamalization was woke
There's also a theory that epidemic pellagra contributed vastly to the perception of Southerners, especially Black Southerners, as lazy and shiftless. Pellagra causes incredible fatigue, amongst its other godawful symptoms.
June 17, 2026 at 8:27 AM
There's also a theory that epidemic pellagra contributed vastly to the perception of Southerners, especially Black Southerners, as lazy and shiftless. Pellagra causes incredible fatigue, amongst its other godawful symptoms.
historically speaking, being a heritage american entailed wondrous achievements like "ethnic warfare", "live in dirt house", & "pellagra"
there's no such thing as a "heritage american" and brain-damaged constitutional law professors and members of the vox cinematic universe treating it with respect is bad, and they should be berated
borders are fake, and america is what it is in the best sense due to periodically recognizing that
borders are fake, and america is what it is in the best sense due to periodically recognizing that
December 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
historically speaking, being a heritage american entailed wondrous achievements like "ethnic warfare", "live in dirt house", & "pellagra"
I think a lot about the historian I read who argued that it was regrettable that fortified foods eliminated pellagra and other deficiency diseases because it foreclosed broader structural action against capitalism
okay, sure, but... we solved pellagra?
okay, sure, but... we solved pellagra?
May 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I think a lot about the historian I read who argued that it was regrettable that fortified foods eliminated pellagra and other deficiency diseases because it foreclosed broader structural action against capitalism
okay, sure, but... we solved pellagra?
okay, sure, but... we solved pellagra?
They’re not dying of starvation! They merely have rickets, scurvy, beriberi, pellagra, and other diseases of malnutrition!
August 18, 2025 at 5:31 AM
They’re not dying of starvation! They merely have rickets, scurvy, beriberi, pellagra, and other diseases of malnutrition!
Also pellagra and rickets
July 18, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Also pellagra and rickets
Make pellagra great again!
December 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Make pellagra great again!
Do you know what happens without the nixtamal process when you make corn your staple food source?
And do you know why that happened?
Because colonizers could not fucking bother to ask why natives did what they did.
Not understanding the process.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellagra
And do you know why that happened?
Because colonizers could not fucking bother to ask why natives did what they did.
Not understanding the process.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellagra
June 16, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Do you know what happens without the nixtamal process when you make corn your staple food source?
And do you know why that happened?
Because colonizers could not fucking bother to ask why natives did what they did.
Not understanding the process.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellagra
And do you know why that happened?
Because colonizers could not fucking bother to ask why natives did what they did.
Not understanding the process.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellagra
Chat, is it bad to prevent the rampant pellagra, beriberi and neural tube defects that were way more common before we started enriching flour?
May 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Chat, is it bad to prevent the rampant pellagra, beriberi and neural tube defects that were way more common before we started enriching flour?
Pellagra was a huge problem in the southeastern US in the first half of the 20th century!
November 9, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Pellagra was a huge problem in the southeastern US in the first half of the 20th century!
lord you know i been dewormed down in texas
and got pellagra up in tennessee
and got pellagra up in tennessee
May 26, 2024 at 11:36 PM
lord you know i been dewormed down in texas
and got pellagra up in tennessee
and got pellagra up in tennessee
tuberculosis, scarlet fever, pertussis...
maybe even pellagra
maybe even pellagra
February 10, 2025 at 12:42 AM
tuberculosis, scarlet fever, pertussis...
maybe even pellagra
maybe even pellagra
Eventually boll weevil forced the issue & landowners started allowing sharecroppers to grow things besides cotton.
You can see the rates of pellagra & other malnutrition drop as landowners gave up on cotton & let sharecroppers grow other things. Like food.
www.nber.org/system/files...
You can see the rates of pellagra & other malnutrition drop as landowners gave up on cotton & let sharecroppers grow other things. Like food.
www.nber.org/system/files...
www.nber.org
March 16, 2026 at 3:01 AM
Eventually boll weevil forced the issue & landowners started allowing sharecroppers to grow things besides cotton.
You can see the rates of pellagra & other malnutrition drop as landowners gave up on cotton & let sharecroppers grow other things. Like food.
www.nber.org/system/files...
You can see the rates of pellagra & other malnutrition drop as landowners gave up on cotton & let sharecroppers grow other things. Like food.
www.nber.org/system/files...
The only people who don't want tortillas enriched with the same vitamins we add to bread and Cheerios are fans of preventable birth defects and pellagra.
If you don't know what pellagra is, hie thee to Wikipedia, but not while you're eating.
If you don't know what pellagra is, hie thee to Wikipedia, but not while you're eating.
Noting here that we've long required breakfast cereal, bread products, and flours be enriched with folic acid, plus. This has primarily benefitted white consumers.
We've also found that folic acid, beyond preventing neural tube defects, ALSO lowers risk of severe cardiovascular events in elders.
We've also found that folic acid, beyond preventing neural tube defects, ALSO lowers risk of severe cardiovascular events in elders.
California now requires corn masa flour to contain folic acid to reduce birth defects among Latinos. Public health officials have lauded these efforts, but some conservatives say it’s another form of government overreach.
January 11, 2026 at 9:54 AM
The only people who don't want tortillas enriched with the same vitamins we add to bread and Cheerios are fans of preventable birth defects and pellagra.
If you don't know what pellagra is, hie thee to Wikipedia, but not while you're eating.
If you don't know what pellagra is, hie thee to Wikipedia, but not while you're eating.
It wasn't until *1916* that scientists experimenting on Black prisoners in Mississippi proved pellagra was a dietary disease (niacin deficiency), leading to the REDISCOVERY of what indigenous peoples of the Americas had known for centuries: corn's nutrition has to be unlocked with processing.
October 15, 2024 at 12:38 AM
It wasn't until *1916* that scientists experimenting on Black prisoners in Mississippi proved pellagra was a dietary disease (niacin deficiency), leading to the REDISCOVERY of what indigenous peoples of the Americas had known for centuries: corn's nutrition has to be unlocked with processing.
I mean pellagra was pretty bad, it killed ~100K people in the US (~1900-1940).
The fact that we memory-holed "40-year-long malnutrition crisis that killed 100,000 Americans within living people's lifetimes" is a great example of how bad we need ag & financial literacy!
The fact that we memory-holed "40-year-long malnutrition crisis that killed 100,000 Americans within living people's lifetimes" is a great example of how bad we need ag & financial literacy!
Between this and vaccines, we are looking at a potential for mass death like we’ve never seen before, not in this country anyway.
So that $10B bailout for farmers.
Is it a payout for political support? Yeah. Bold move for an industry that talks so much about hard work & independence!
But it's also worse than that. This is a US food crisis in the making.
www.usda.gov/about-usda/n...
Let's talk about the payoff part first?
Is it a payout for political support? Yeah. Bold move for an industry that talks so much about hard work & independence!
But it's also worse than that. This is a US food crisis in the making.
www.usda.gov/about-usda/n...
Let's talk about the payoff part first?
March 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I mean pellagra was pretty bad, it killed ~100K people in the US (~1900-1940).
The fact that we memory-holed "40-year-long malnutrition crisis that killed 100,000 Americans within living people's lifetimes" is a great example of how bad we need ag & financial literacy!
The fact that we memory-holed "40-year-long malnutrition crisis that killed 100,000 Americans within living people's lifetimes" is a great example of how bad we need ag & financial literacy!
This gives me painful thoughts to the history and story of pellagra. Referenced many times in the Grapes of Wrath, it was a vitamin deficiency that wreaked havoc on malnourished people, while the rich sneered
Why isn't it an issue anymore? Vitamin fortified foods.
library.uab.edu/locations/re...
Why isn't it an issue anymore? Vitamin fortified foods.
library.uab.edu/locations/re...
History of Pellagra | Libraries
Libraries at UAB, The University of Alabama at Birmingham
library.uab.edu
January 11, 2026 at 1:20 PM
This gives me painful thoughts to the history and story of pellagra. Referenced many times in the Grapes of Wrath, it was a vitamin deficiency that wreaked havoc on malnourished people, while the rich sneered
Why isn't it an issue anymore? Vitamin fortified foods.
library.uab.edu/locations/re...
Why isn't it an issue anymore? Vitamin fortified foods.
library.uab.edu/locations/re...
Same. Pellagra I never knew ya
December 12, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Same. Pellagra I never knew ya