Avitaminosis and starvation. Collazo ( Vrach. Delo, 1923, No. 3-5)

Abstract

Avitaminosis is often seen as a type of starvation, based on the notion that it causes the cells of the body to lose much of their ability to assimilate food. According to Collazo, this is not entirely true: starvation is primarily the destruction of the substances of which the body is built; avitaminosis is the destruction of cellular material simultaneously with the burning of food substances without the ability to assimilate food normally.

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