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Default Thiamine (B1) Deficiency and Tea Consumption

Ozzy <please.answer@NG> writes:

> "Shen" > wrote in
> oups.com:
>
> > http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/d...tural/patient-

> thiamin.htm
> ...
> > qjmed.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/55/1/15.pdf
> >
> > Shen

>
> Thanks much, Shen, for taking the time. I thought you'd forgotten all
> about it -- but then again I've been otherwise occuppied myself for the
> last few days.
>
> Considering what direction the thread took after you posted these
> references, and your saying that you took a pot of tea a day yourself --
> by which we know that you are *not* one of the people referred to below
> -- let me remind the group of a passage from Mark Twain's
> *Autobiography*, which I think is extremely revelant still:
>
> "It seems a pity that the world should throw away so many good things
> merely because they are unwholesome. I doubt if God has given us any
> refreshment which, taken in moderation, is unwholesome, except microbes.
> Yet there are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every
> eatable, drinkable and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady
> reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get
> for it."


As a Twainolator, I'm pained to note that the master was wrong about
microbes.

/Lew
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