Word: yuca
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worst and most general health problem in the Amazon, says the fleet's health director, Dr. Max Benzake, is simple malnutrition. The basic staples in the area are yuca, bananas, some fish and wild game-a diet woefully deficient in protein. Children almost never get milk. Everybody drinks polluted water, and so practically everybody has a variety of intestinal parasites...