Agricultural practices affect arthritis
Nutr Health
; 7(2): 89-100, 1991.
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ABSTRACT
It has been suggested that boron deficiency in food may be a cause of some arthritis (Newnham 1979). Epidemiological studies were done to try to ascertain why some countries have more or less arthritis than other countries. Jamaica, Mauritius, Fiji and Israel were visited with a view to ascertaining the boron levels of locally consumed food as it was suspected that excessive use of soluble chemical fertilizers had damaged the soils of the sugar producing lands. Food grown on these soils were found to have low boron level. By contrast the food consumed in Isreal had high boron concentrations associated with a low incidence of arthritis. South African work has shown that people who eat mostly maize have more arthritis when eating processed maize grown with fertilizer. Brief references is made to the role of boron in human diets. There are bound to be geographical differences in dietary boron, but even in the USA levels have dropped considerably in 50 years. Arthritis is increasing, especially juvenile arthritis. The increased use of fertilizers and genetic selection of plants has led to a wide range of changes in the quality of foodstuffs and their nutrient content. The identification of the parallel loss of boron may reflect vital changes in trace elements and other nutrients (AU)
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MedCarib
Assunto principal:
Artrite
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Boro
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Fertilizantes
Tipo de estudo:
Incidence_studies
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Prognostic_studies
País/Região como assunto:
Africa
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America do norte
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Asia
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Caribe ingles
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Jamaica
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Oceania
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Nutr Health
Ano de publicação:
1991
Tipo de documento:
Article