Food Matters, diet and disease, a production of BBC Active ; Fims for the Humanities and Science
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Food Matters, diet and disease, a production of BBC Active ; Fims for the Humanities and Science
Language
eng
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videorecording
Main title
Food Matters
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videorecording
Oclc number
212430663
Responsibility statement
a production of BBC Active ; Fims for the Humanities and Science
Runtime
52
Series statement
Medical mavericks : the history of self-experimentation
Sub title
diet and disease
Summary
The maxim "You are what you eat" could have originated with a few hungry self-experimenters who proved that nutrition is critical to good health. As this program illustrates, one of the most prominent of these scientists was Dr. Joseph Goldberger, an early-20th-century researcher who ate the feces and scabs from patients with pellagra in his quest to prove it was not infectious. Viewers will learn how, when the medical establishment ignored his findings, Goldberger went on to inject himself and his devoted wife with the blood of a woman dying with pellagra, in order to make his point and establish diet as a critical factor in health and medical care
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live action
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Diet and diease
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