This is the story of beriberi. For more than 1500 years, beriberi was known as poison wind affliction, a sickness produced by chronic exposure to damp...

In Episode 13 of Nutrition History from Parts Unknown, we're  talking on sugar, the unlikely superfood of medieval times. We'll be tracing the emergen...

In Episode 12 of Nutrition History from Parts Unknown, we're continuing where we left off in Episode 11, talking on the 14th century medical community...

In Episode 11 of Nutrition History from Parts Unknown, we're talking the 14th century medical community's response to the Black Death of 1347-51. This...

In Episode 11 of Nutrition History from Parts Unknown, we're talking the 14th century medical community's response to the Black Death of 1347-51. This...

On Episode 10 of Nutrition History from Parts Unknown, we’re dishing out three stories on the early history of protein and its role in the nutritional...

In episode 9 of Nutrition History from Parts Unknown, we are talking about one of the oldest and most renowned herbal medicine in the history of the w...

In Pt.2 of Vegetable Eating in the Middle Ages, we'll discuss the broadening of the medieval European vegetable resume with additions from the Arabic ...

In Pt.1 of Vegetable Eating in the Middle Ages, we're tracing the history of vegetable consumption in Medieval Europe following the Fall of Rome.  We'...

In episode 6 of Nutrition History from Parts Unknown, we are tracing the origins and history of the disease of nutritional deficiency known as pellagr...