Corn-Rich Diets in Europe in the 1700s Resulted in the Disease

question 30

Essay

Corn-rich diets in Europe in the 1700s resulted in the disease pellagra.Though Mexico also had a corn-rich diet at the time,this disease was rare there.Propose a reason for this observation.

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