Karl Mac Mc Kinnon wrote:
>
>         There is a disease that one can get from a high corn diet.  It's
> called "pelegara" or something.  What I need to know is (1) the right
> spelling, (2) what the cause is and (3) what the syntoms are.

Pellagra (literally means "rough skin") and is related to a high corn
diet in that such a diet is deficient in tryptophan-containing
proteins.  It is classically associated with niacin deficiencies from
dietary deficiency or malabsorption.

s/s: diarrhea, dermatitis and dementia

This may help too, pellagrazein is a poisonous substance in decomposed
cornmeal.  It was mistakenly thought to be the cause of pellagra.

Andrew =8-)
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