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Anonymous
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To further supplement his point, look at some of the books about Japanese nutrition pre World War 2.
During the Edo period, the high-class City-Dwelling Japanese would regularly contract an illness they called Beriberi, which was cured by a brief spell in the country. What was basically happening was they were suffering from B Vitamin deficiency from eating the delicacy of White Rice. When they went back to the countryside and ate the less-stripped rice from those regions, they'd recover.
The same problem occurred during World War II, when they were recruiting soldiers to the Navy through offering the recruits, mostly country boys, white rice as part of every meal to entice them. The government then faced the problem of beriberi in contradiction to their promises.
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