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Old 28-09-2012, 11:57 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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john brooks wrote:


Could humans survive on just cooked rice? It turns out a women astounded
doctors a few years back, she ate nothing but tinnned rice pudding for years


Well, was claimed to in the press! Also, tinned rice pudding has a
lot more in it than plain rice.

The answer is "no". We would get scurvy and die. Even with added
vitamin C, we would get other deficiencies and die slowly.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.