Pellagra is a dietary deficiency disease that ends in madness and death. And at one time was responsible for half the inmates in Italian asylums and 100,000 deaths a year in the US. Now it is all but forgotten.
https://eatthispodcast.com/pellagra
Pellagra is a dietary deficiency disease that ends in madness and death. And at one time was responsible for half the inmates in Italian asylums and 100,000 deaths a year in the US. Now it is all but forgotten.
https://eatthispodcast.com/pellagra
How do you cure a dietary disease caused by poverty? Give sufferers better food.
“The hospital doctors all knew: give them a decent diet.” Knowing wasn’t enough.
“We can’t improve the peasants’ diet. That’s that’s not our job. We’re doctors.”
So whose job is it?
https://eatthispodcast.com/pellagra
Jeremy Cherfas, Jun 26 2025 on stream.jeremycherfas.net