Is it all fermented grain burgers and scurvy grass smoothies?
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Her witty misanthropy is here to ward off mental scurvy.
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Help stave off scurvy and rickets during the long campaign.
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"He got vegetables to soldiers and stopped scurvy," Ms. Ghadamian said.
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Unlike scurvy, these illnesses are much harder to get a handle on.
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Eventually, a person with scurvy might die of infection or excess bleeding.
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We would probably have issues with scurvy, if you think about it.
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Causes of death include exposure, hypothermia, starvation, scurvy, tuberculosis, and lead poisoning.
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It's also pretty unlikely that you have true vitamin C deficiency (like scurvy).
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But Rice probably wouldn't sway any of the Scurvy Thirty with her swiftness.
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So Lind took 12 scurvy patients and ran the first modern clinical trial.
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Now you're going to get scurvy and die—and painfully, by the way.
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Nutritional deficiencies are common; conditions like anemia and scurvy leave characteristic bone porosities.
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In the Russian camps, people got sick with scurvy, from a lack of vitamins.
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Unless you're currently battling scurvy or some other specific deficiency, you don't need them.
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Eat nothing but pet food over a long period, and you might get scurvy.
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Scurvy is a serious condition caused by lack of vitamin C in the diet.
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Scurvy is an absurd disease in which your body basically crumbles from the inside.
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Anemia sounds like the kind of condition that rarely happens anymore, like scurvy or rickets.
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Also he apparently ate nothing but Wonder Bread all that time and never got scurvy.
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They turn to the internet, everyone's favorite doctor, which reveals that he actually has...scurvy.
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Scurvy is quite dangerous, and can result in fatigue, bleeding, bone fractures, and even death.
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The diet of mainly meat and starch frequently resulted in ailments like rickets and scurvy.
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The latter, incidentally, was not just for show—it was used to ward off scurvy.
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Narrator: In the 18th century, millions of sailors suffered from a horrible disease called scurvy.
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By the 20th century, medicine had mostly fixed scurvy and goiter and other diseases of deficiency.
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Gunton added that scurvy could affect anyone with a poor diet, not just those with diabetes.
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When she became interested in historical accounts of scurvy, she felt a flash of strange recognition.
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Among historians, the generally accepted causes of death include exposure, scurvy, lead poisoning, botulism, tuberculosis, and starvation.
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Its high vitamin c content makes it popular with North American Inuits as a guard against scurvy.
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He also preaches the gospel of greens in preventing scurvy, a trick taught to him by his wife.
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I allowed myself to eat chicken breasts, salad, raspberries (so I wouldn't get scurvy, I rationalized) and sushi.
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Without treatment, scurvy can reduce the body's red blood cell count and lead to problems with wound healing.
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People were dying left and right of scurvy and whatnot, and to boost morale he starts this club.
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This includes vitamin C, a lack of which can cause scurvy, which appears to be making a comeback.
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Many Franklin scholars believe from this description that the surviving crews were suffering from scurvy and possibly lead poisoning.
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As far as she knows, though, she doesn't have scurvy, nor is she worried enough to take vitamin supplements.
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Scurvy, a disease triggered by a lack of vitamin C, results in a general feeling of fatigue and malaise.
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The owner said he was just getting tired — but WebMD says it could either be gout, polio or scurvy.
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They don't need a lot of water; they don't need a lot of vitamin C, so they don't get scurvy.
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From Ritalin and Adderall to the twice-methylated Breaking Bad stuff, speed seduces both overbright founders and scurvy garage-dwellers.
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Scurvy is a disease that results from a severe vitamin C deficiency—and guess what vitamin almond milk doesn't have?
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For generations, scurvy was treated with sulfuric acid, which is like treating stomach cancer with a punch to the gut.
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Image: J. Skowron / Warsaw University Observatory; Gif via GizmodoRogue planets sound adventurous, like pirates of the final frontier minus the scurvy.
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Before it was a punchline for terrible jokes about pirates, scurvy was a very real threat for a very long time.
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Without them, people develop old-timey-sounding conditions including scurvy (vitamin C deficiency), anemia (iron deficiency), and rickets (vitamin D deficiency).
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As I've reported, nutrition science has done a great job of finding ways to address diseases of nutrient deficiencies, like scurvy.
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I was expecting hardtack plus limes to ward off scurvy, but we were served skirt steak, roasted potatoes and grilled vegetables.
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His men set off by sledge over the unforgiving Arctic terrain, where they gradually dropped off from scurvy, starvation, and hypothermia.
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Speaker 2: I feel bad bringing a serious question in after that- SB: And my answer to you is also scurvy.
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I'm not sure if that much carbonated water is good for me, but at least I won't be getting scurvy anytime soon.
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Adventurous sailors once staved off scurvy by eating penguins, but the house specialty on this ship is kraken, the mythological giant octopus.
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And an absence of vitamins and fibers, which normally come from fruits and vegetables, is a precursor to conditions like scurvy and constipation.
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A very early version of the Whiskey Sour was drunk by sailors to prevent scurvy as they journeyed from England to North America.
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One valuable lesson of the diet is that human bodies are remarkably resilient: You can shit without fiber and avoid scurvy without vegetables!
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This can lead to a terrible disease called scurvy, in situations where you can&apost get enough of the vitamin from your diet.
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Many of troubling diseases of the day, such as scurvy, pellagra, anemia, and goiter, were due to some sort of deficiency in the diet.
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But in Australia, there are fears that scurvy may be more than an empty threat used to get adolescents to lay off the Domino's.
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" Mr. Credico lamented that his association with Mr. Stone might obscure his activism, and called his connection to Mr. Stone "worse than having scurvy.
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Jeff, too, is dragged down that path, transforming from a sweet underachiever (who once had scurvy) to a vengeful husk — and then back again.
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In the 18th century, Captain James Cook and his crew brewed spruce beer in an attempt to fend off scurvy on their yearslong voyages.
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Once the scourge of sailors who did not have access to sources of vitamin C during many months at sea, scurvy is rare today.
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"Scurvy and lead exposure may have contributed to the pathogenesis of Addison's disease, but the hypothesis is not wholly dependent on these conditions," Taichman said.
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The doctors also found the baby had abnormally low levels of zinc, vitamin D, and ascorbic acid, or vitamin C. They diagnosed him with scurvy.
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According to the National Institutes of Health, vitamin C is an antioxidant and can help regenerate other antioxidants, boosts your immune system, and prevents scurvy.
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The vitamin is one of many micronutrients that are necessary for good health, and lack of it can cause nasty symptoms from fatigue to scurvy.
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The diet restricted her food intake so much that it required her doctor's approval, and eventually, supplement shots to keep her from getting, I assume, scurvy.
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How lucky we are to know that eating lemons or onions keeps us from getting scurvy, and that lots of liquids are good for a cold.
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" Think of it like being a crew member on an old ship, where the destination is a degree and scurvy has been replaced by "the freshman 15.
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Way back in the 18th century, people used to get sick with scurvy around springtime, because they didn't have access to fresh fruits or vegetables all winter.
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A sugar-only diet would also lead to rapid tooth decay, and cause your blood glucose levels to spike and fall repeatedly, exacerbating your scurvy-induced fatigue.
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The rock, like the hump of a whale emerging from the sea, was barren but for lichen and scurvy grass fed by the droppings of sea birds.
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Rife among 18th century sailors with no access to fresh fruit or vegetables while away at sea, cases of scurvy were now thought to be largely nonexistent.
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Scurvy, a deficiency of vitamin C, was definitely also problem for the doomed crew members, but Taichman says this disease couldn't possibly be responsible for all the deaths.
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In the 16th century, Basque ships were built around the cider barrels, and each sailor drank up to three liters of cider per day to fend off scurvy.
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He told of days in darkness in the hold of the ship, and the sour water given to drink twice a day, acrid with vinegar to prevent scurvy.
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Conclusion: I wouldn't recommend exclusively eating smoked salmon and capers any longer than one day, as scurvy is a very real and serious affliction (you know, among other things).
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An 11-month-old baby developed scurvy—yup, the disease of pirates of yore—after being fed almond milk instead of breast milk or a cow-milk-based formula.
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Not every restaurant seasons its greens with burnt ends but I imagined that a week of nonstop barbecue, without vegetables, could put us at a legitimate risk for scurvy.
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He was said to add lime to the gin his men drank, in an effort to curb the scurvy outbreak that plagued them at the turn of the 20th century.
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Railroad workers lived in camps and cooked for themselves, meaning that they had to improvise to make things delicious and need very hearty food to stave off exhaustion and scurvy.
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According to the U.S. National Library of Medicine, scurvy occurs when someone has a severe lack of Vitamin C in their diet, causing weakness, anemia, gum disease, and skin hemorrhages.
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There is no more reason to stress the "complementary" choices required of vegan diets than to remind omnivores that they must carefully "combine" their meat with citrus fruit to avoid scurvy.
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A repeated comparison I saw people draw was to the landscape as a starved body, how in the later stages of scurvy old scars on the body are said to reopen.
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But maybe, like with scurvy, there's some obvious piece of the puzzle we've been missing, something right under our noses that we walk past every day and don't think twice about.
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And I would hope that their exposure to George and Martha would act as lemon juice on scurvy, derailing some of the more predictable and dispiriting dinner party conversations of 2018.
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Mr Miles estimates that 30,000 people died, many of them succumbing to malaria, scurvy and dysentery, during the initial construction, while others were torn apart by packs of wolves in broad daylight.
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In 1747, a Scottish doctor named James Lind wanted to figure out why so many sailors got scurvy, a disease that leaves sufferers exhausted and anemic, with bloody gums and missing teeth.
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As far back as the 16th century, the Iroquois of the St. Lawrence River region of Canada gave Vitamin C-starved Europeans advice for warding off scurvy—boil spruce needles, strain, and drink.
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This is an attitude about food that actually has its roots in an earlier and opposite idea — that some foods can keep us from dying (think of sailors avoiding scurvy by eating citrus).
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In last spring's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow claimed to have scabies, though it was never clarified how he got them or if he actually meant scurvy.
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Portuguese sailors learned to build ships that could plunge into the uncharted Atlantic in search of winds to carry them around Africa's southern tip, all the while dying in droves from dysentery, scurvy and thirst.
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Finding out that an all-meat diet won't cause scurvy, that your bowels can do well (maybe better!) on nothing but ribeyes—it's as if the serpent pushed you against the tree, and you survived.
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And when that diet causes me to die of scurvy at the age of 40, fill my veins with gingerbread-flavored embalming fluid and lower me into the ground in a candy cane-colored coffin.
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Credit...Eva O'Leary for The New York Times Scurvy, the great scourge of maritime exploration, the killer of some two million people between the late 1400s and 1800, was once understood as a disease of longing.
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So don't make the same mistake as the British Royal Navy, which failed to provide lemon juice to its sailors on a regular basis for over 40 years after the simple cure for scurvy was first discovered.
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For instance, average corn grain yields in the U.S. have increased by nearly 700 percent since the 1860s, and once-common syndromes associated with poor diets (such as scurvy and pellagra) have virtually disappeared from developed countries.
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So why is she constantly scanning her body for signs of scurvy while I've always wanted to work in a hospital to be closer to illness and death because I feel most at ease when surrounded by crisis?
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Here are some ways to get in on the action: Speak like a scurvy pirate (on social media) Yes, you can "update your plunderin," or manage your "grog fests" on Facebook in the ultimate test of pirate literacy.
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The authors of the report describe an infant in Spain who was fed only almond beverages or almond flour-based formulations from age two months to 11 months and developed fractures and failure to thrive due to scurvy.
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Here are some ways to get in on the action: Speak like a scurvy pirate (on social media) Yes, you can "update your plunderin," or manage your "grog fests" on Facebook in the ultimate test of pirate literacy.
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The Student The UK's diminishing club scene and an exponential increase in student loans mean that the fabled scurvy-ridden student dipping slices of quiche Lorraine in a Pot Noodle, chased by some sour methodrone for "brekkie" has become something of an anomaly.
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Professor Jenny Gunton of the Centre for Diabetes, Obesity, and Endocrinology research at Sydney's Westmead Institute has reported in the Diabetic Medicine journal that around a dozen diabetes patients at Westmead Hospital in Sydney were recently found to be suffering from scurvy.
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When colonialists and whalers started coming up north, they used to balk at the idea of us eating raw meat, but then people were dying of scurvy and not realizing that the only way to retain the vitamins was to eat it raw.
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It can lead to greater intake of vitamin C — squeezes of lime and lemon were routinely added to the drinks of sailors on long voyages in the 18th century to ward off scurvy — and probiotic bacteria, via fermented foods, to boost digestive health.
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On a hot night, order the Scurvy, a potent mix of a few kinds of rum, coconut, and citrus, or the Bearded Clam, a passion fruit mojito, both of which come in a grimacing tiki mug you can take home as a souvenir.
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Although Bering's second Kamchatka Expedition brought disaster for him personally when adverse weather on the return journey led to a shipwreck on one of the westernmost Aleutian Islands and his eventual death from scurvy in December 1741, it was an incredible success for Russia.
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Known as lingonberries in Sweden and as partridgeberries in Newfoundland, lowbush cranberries have been foraged by indigenous peoples in the Yukon for thousands of years, as well as by European explorers and Gold Rush stampeders who learned that wild berries kept scurvy at bay.
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If you've ever been a kitchen-shy student or surly teenage with an aversion to putting anything green in their mouth, you will have been on the receiving end of a "You'll get scurvy!!!" warning—probably from a concerned parent desperate for you to try their wholesome carrot and onion soup.
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A study from 2012 by Mark Harper, a British doctor, on whether the effect of an immune system bracing itself against the cold could help patients recover after surgery, quotes Richard Russell, who in 1752 claimed that sea-swimming could cure "scurvy, jaundice, Kings'-evil, leprosy, and the glandular consumption".
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Sure, it's unrealistic that they lived off fistfuls of marshmallows, towers of Pop Tarts, and slice upon slice of frozen pizza without dropping dead from scurvy, but the show's creative writing and the actresses' whimsical line delivery succeeded in turning their unbelievable diets into the show's most fun and reliable running gag.
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Only two ways living with this guy ends: he just disappears one day, and you tiptoe into his room for the first time to find it bare and empty; or coroners have to ease him out on a stretcher after he becomes the first man in the 21st century to die of scurvy.
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Following suit, this new wave of vitamin subscription services offers not just vitamin D for those who can't step outside on their lunch break, or vitamin C for those looking to avoid scurvy, but also things like biotin and sea buckthorn for thicker, shinier hair, and borage oil with saffron for clear skin.
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Angus Deaton, a Princeton economist who recently won the Nobel Prize, points out that a groundswell of public-health measures and medical innovations that came online in the late 18th century meant the rich (but rarely the poor) could access, for example, inoculation against small pox, professional midwives to make childbirth less deadly, and citrus fruits that prevented scurvy.
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She had scurvy — a disorder caused by a severe deficiency of vitamin C. In the mid-18th century, a naval surgeon named James Lind proved that the juice of oranges and lemons would cure the bony aches, strange bleeding and sudden death of sailors afflicted with the illness, and the British Navy later mandated the use of lemon juice on all vessels.
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But Taubes explains his caution by reminding us that we are no longer dealing with deficiency diseases, like scurvy, which can be solved with a single magic bullet like vitamin C. We're talking about degenerative diseases, which take a long time to develop — a lifetime of sweets, in other words — and (frustratingly, if you're out to prove the hypothesis) don't develop in everyone.
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There's Henry Walsh Mahon, an 2128th-century Irish ship doctor who sketched not just flora and fauna but scurvy-riddled limbs; Joseph Gilbert, a sailor on James Cook's second voyage who produced stunning, finely detailed drawings from the Pacific and Southern Oceans; and Konrad Grünenberg, a 15th-century German knight who created a vibrant chronicle of his 1486 journey to the Middle East.
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But it wasn't until the 20th century that researchers recognized that the cause of scurvy was the lack of a certain nutrient, which they named vitamin C. Without this organic chemical, new connective tissue, essential for the repair or replacement of damaged or dying cells, cannot be made, and that causes the bleeding, the bruising, the telltale little red dots and the terrible fatigue.
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New Clues Emerge About Doomed Expedition Through the Northwest PassageIn 1845, Sir John Franklin led two British Royal Navy ships on an ill-fated expedition through the…Read more ReadPrevious analyses of the bone, hair, and soft tissue from the recovered bodies, along with oral accounts from indigenous peoples, suggested the crewmen died from an assortment of causes, such as lead poisoning, exposure, starvation, scurvy, botulism, tuberculosis, and Addison's disease (a form of adrenal insufficiency brought on by tuberculosis).
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