Season, Nutrition and Pellagra

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Abstract
Other reports from Southern nutritional research groups independently confirm these trends in intakes of components of the vitamin B complex and suggest that the population receives the best nourishment just before clinical symptoms of malnutrition appear. Darby et al.,27 working in the same Tennessee community as Steinkamp and her associates,17 found that the urinary excretion of thiamine by pregnant women on the average was higher in the late winter and early spring (the seasons here have the usual designation) months, corresponding to the season of high pork and dried legume intake.‡ Although these two studies reveal that in the late . . .