If you eat too much corn, it becomes a vampire, though, and do not drink blood

Corn has established itself as a very useful food, also in the last century people have learned to do it all kinds of food additives, used as a building material, and even biofuels. But first I had to learn how to mix it with other substances so as not to turn into a vampire.

However, from such a fate had to flee only to Europeans. Maize has long been the US Food and Native Americans knew how to cook it and what confused. European settlers also began to grow it because of the accessibility and affordability. Later corn swam across the ocean and became the staple food of the poor. That's just in cooking, they are not added into it ... limestone.

Without lime - calcium hydroxide - or without specific types of amino acids from a food becomes bad. Maize contains niacin in the form of indigestible - if her lunch once, nothing terrible will happen, but the people that make the basis for corn diet deficient nicotinic acid or pellagra.

The skin of patients with pellagra in the sun blisters. Their stomachs can no longer digest normal food and language are dark red, as if they sometimes drink blood. Patients begin to stay awake at night, because they have severe dementia, sometimes associated with increased aggression. More pellagra contributes to persistent diarrhea, however, in the legends of vampires, this fact is not usually mentioned.

Of course, the legend arose much earlier than corn became popular in Europe, but it is possible that the diet of corn and its consequences have stirred interest in them. In the early 1900s people were still unable to determine the cause of the disease, they became known only in 1937 when it was discovered that niacin helps to neutralize the symptoms of pellagra in dogs.

via factroom.ru