Chapter 52 Carp and Tofu

Li Yu had actually been paying attention to nutritional issues for a long time, When the lizard people first emerged from the swamp, they all had various diseases to some degree.

While treating them, Li Yu discovered that many of their problems were actually caused by a lack of nutrition.

Due to the scarcity of resources in the swamp, it was difficult to cultivate crops, leading to a relatively monotonous diet for the lizard people.

Some of them suffered from shortness of breath, easy fatigue, frequent headaches, and in severe cases, walking difficulties, or even dementia, all due to a lack of folic acid.

By contrast, people outside the swamp rarely had such problems because foods containing folic acid were actually quite common.

Bread (or other whole grain foods), beans, broccoli... these were all foods often consumed even by the common folk.