Multiple choice

Directions: In which year given discovery/invention was made:

Cause of Beriberi

  1. 1968

  2. 1897

  3. 1939

  4. 1969

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B Correct answer
Explanation

Christiaan Eijkman discovered that beriberi was caused by a deficiency in the diet, specifically lack of thiamine (vitamin B1), through his work with polished rice in 1897. This was a crucial discovery in understanding nutritional diseases.

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