• Rioting Pacifist@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Any sudden change in diet can have this effect, I think schools do pretty bad job of teaching kids about actual health.

    Anyway if you go vegan eat marmite.

    • Buffalox@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Georgina Owen had developed a vitamin B12 deficiency due to the diet she began in 2016

      I wouldn’t call 10 years sudden.

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          2 days ago

          Wow 3 years to be so seriously affected by B12 deficiency!? That was quick?
          I don’t think that’s normal. B12 is essential, but I would have thought the detrimental effects would take longer to reach that level.

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            If you don’t get any intake of B12, it takes a few years. But there are symptoms before going insane… You need to be completely deaf to your body’s screaming signs to actually die from it.

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              1 day ago

              The death was suicide. So not directly from B12 deficiency, but from mental illness most likely caused by B12 deficiency.

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                1 day ago

                Yes, I meant to die from it directly or indirectly. It’s not sudden insanity, the symptoms get gradually worse over time, just like most deficiency.

    • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Fun fact: Vegemite was sent to Australian POWs in Japanese camps to combat B vitamin deficiencies. The guards dismissed it as shoe polish.

      Also, either can be used in small quantities to make gravies taste better. Makes mushroom gravy taste extra umami.

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        Vegemite has a high level of glutamates, which are the source of the umami flavor. And it doesn’t often trigger the kind of reactions that some people have to MSG, which the purified form of one particular glutamate.