Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
Once upon a time, a terrible disease called kakke ravaged the aristocracy in Japan. A patient could recover, or could die of the disease. No one could figure out what caused it, or why it was mostly restricted to the upper class. They tried herbal medicines and other traditional cures, and doctors even recommended that suffers get out of Edo (Tokyo) because the city was killing them.
And that actually helped in a lot of cases. But what was killing people was their expensive diet of mainly white polished rice. It turned out that kakke was not a communicable disease, but a nutritional deficiency.Gleaming white rice…
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