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TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING?

In 1912, Casimir Funk, the father of vitamin therapy, advanced the revolutionary idea that certain diseases, like beriberi, could be cured and prevented by curious substances found in foods — what he dubbed . The discovery was a major

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