Eating too much corn turns you into a vampire (without the blood drinking)

A diet of too much corn , and not enough everything else , can give you the precondition that inspired vampire legends . Learn about the clavus - fed vampires who haunt the American west at the turn of the last hundred .

edible corn has show itself to be very useful . Over the last one C , people have learned to utilise it to feed themselves , make all sort of food additive , become it into a edifice material , and even make it into biofuel . But first they had to get a line to commingle it with a few things , or they would turn into lamia .

Or , at least it would turn Europeans into vampires . Corn was an American food , and the native Americans knew to mix hydrated lime into their corn when they develop it . European settler started raising , and living on , mostly corn , and as it made its way around Europe and became the solid food of the piteous , but they did n’t add the lime . Without the lime – calcium hydroxide – or without specific types of amino acids , things pop out going bad . Corn contains niacin in an indigestible form . This is n’t a problem for casual corn - eaters , but the great unwashed who make it a staple suffer from niacin deficiency , and from pellagra , the consideration that comes with it .

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Pellagra victims erupt into blisters when their skin is exposed to the Dominicus . They halt being able to digest normal food . Their tongues plow dark red , making them look like they ’ve been sip blood . They start staying up dark – not because of some latent vampirism but because most of them develop severe dementedness . The dementia is also associated with aggressiveness . Pellagra also be given to fetch on diarrhea , which is n’t part ofmostvampire legends , but other signs are there .

lamia legend go back longer than edible corn in the old world , but this resurgence of symptoms which happened every year in give , when supplies were dwindling and people ate mostly cornmeal , may have inspired newfangled vampire legend . Into the early 1900s , people had n’t been able to pin down the source of the condition , and though it must have something to do with mold that develop on corn . It was n’t until 1937 , when it was discovered that niacin in vitamin form cued mal rosso in frump that people finally got wise to it all . Today niacin supplementation are often given out to people and creature who feed mostly on corn , and lamia numbers have been reduced . We get enough of them in pop culture , anyway .

ViaJournal of the Royal Society of MedicineandBritannica .

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