Favism and Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency

Pythagoras of Samos, a great mathematician rather than a physician, may have been first in stating emphatically, in the 5th century b.c. that fava beans could be dangerous and even lethal for humans. This gives him a place in nutrition science but not in nutrogenomics: it seems he did not realize…

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