The passage tells us that before the discovery of vitamins Frederick Hopkins advised taking proteins, carbohydrates, fats, and minerals
polished rice was believed to be particularly healthy
citrus fruits were not included in Western diets
some specific foods were already recognized as helpful to health
scurvy and beriberi were two major causes of death
According to the passage, the name vitamin is applied to "accessory factors" although Casamir Funk didn't find it appropriate
minerals are just as important
beriberi is caused by eating too much rice
some of them are not vital in diet
not all of them contain "amines"
From the information given in the passage, we can conclude that the lack of a certain type of nitrogen-containing compound in a diet may lead to the disease called beriberi
is still very common in many parts of the world
can be corrected by eating citrus fruits
does not normally cause any health problems
is common among those whose diet is rice-based
110 DR. DEAN ORNISH'S PROGRAM In an age when medical science was combating heart disease with costly high- tech interventions, American physician Dean Ornish was something of a throwback. His simple, inexpensive program of lifestyle changes - which featured a low-fat, primarily vegetarian diet, moderate aerobic exercise, and daily stress management - contrasted sharply with such potentially risky treatments as bypass surgery, angioplasty, and cholesterol-lowering medication. The holistic regimen that Ornish recommended appeared not only to halt the progress of atherosclerosis - the buildup of fatty substances within the arteries - but actually to reverse it. Despite his reluctance to be labeled a guru, Ornish continued to gain enthusiastic converts following the publication in 1990 of his best-selling second book, Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease: The Only System Scientifically Proven to Reverse Heart Disease Without Drugs or Surgery. Later highlights for Ornish included the publication of a third book, Eat More, Weigh Less: Dr. Dean Ornish's Life Choice Program for Losing Weight Safely While Eating Abundantly, an invitation to the White House in 1993; and the announcement in August of the same year that Mutual of Omaha, an insurance company, would reimburse policyholders for the cost of participation in the program - the first time a major insurer had agreed to cover an "alternative" treatment for heart disease.