Medical inspection of refugee camps has made evident the fac! that a large number of refugees are suffering from beri-beri a disease exhibiting either swollen legs with palpitation of the heart or painful and weak extremities. Many of these are of the severe, acute type requiring very expensive medicine for treatment. Some have dice because the condition is so advancec that treatment was given too late Practically all of the patients hav developed the disease during their stay in the camps. This serian: situation is due to the fact that the food supplied to the refugees is no! adequate in quality, lacking the essential factor vitamin B. A diet consisting of highly polished rice with a little salted turnip or other salted vegetables is likely to result in the development of the disease.
A cheap way of improving the diet is to substitute a third of the rice with beans (red beans, soyabrans or flat beans), peas or yellow corns. Whenever possible brown rice or partially polished rice such as home pounded rice should replace the imported highly polished or local machine polished rice.
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