Sentences with phrase «from scurvy»

In the past, soldiers and sailors were given lime to keep them safe from scurvy, which was a horrible and potentially fatal disease back then.

Even now, it is distributed among the workers working in polluted environments like furnaces, painting shops, heat treatments, cement factories, mines, and other dangerous work environments to protect them from scurvy.

A moderate intake of natural vitamin C can easily be sourced from limes and can keep you away from scurvy.

Vitamin C can help prevent everything from scurvy to the common cold, and potatoes are full of this nutrient, with about 45 percent of the recommended daily intake per medium baked potato, according to the Washington State Potato Commission.

The health benefits of lemon water include relief from scurvy, sore throat, constipation, kidney stones, canker sores and gum disorders.

This tree was used extensively by Native Americans to protect them from scurvy, as it contains considerable vitamin C. Even today, people stuff their mattresses with dried out pine needles to ward off fleas and lice.

Similarly, in the 1700s, sailors suffering from scurvy, now known to be a vitamin C deficiency, could reverse their symptoms by consuming high levels of citrus fruits.

If we don't ingest enough of it, we fall apart from scurvy, a gruesome connective - tissue disease.

Peasants worked all day so they had the carbs to burn the calories but they didn't have other essential nutrients from other sources so they suffered from scurvy and vitamin d deficiency.

The limes, originally planted by the Spanish, would save them from scurvy.

Historians think that the settlers were not very impressed by the Indians» squash and / or pumpkins until they had to survive their first harsh winter when about half of the settlers died from scurvy and exposure.

Not exact matches

None of your descendants, from generation to generation, who has a defect, may draw near to offer his God's food; for no one who has a defect may come near, no one who is blind, or lame, or has any perforations, or has a limb too long; no one who has a fractured foot, or a fractured hand, or is a hunchback, or has a cataract, or a defect of eye sight, or scurvy, or scabs, or crushed testicles — no one of the descendants of Aaron the priest, who has a defect, may come near to offer the Lord's sacrifices; since he has a defect, he may not come near to offer his God's food.

In the opening pages Luther set the pace, speaking of the Duke rubbing «his scabby and scurvy head» against the Elector, saying that the Duke «curses, blasphemes, shrieks, struggles, bellows, and spits», and says that such books as the Duke's «make me tingle with pleasure from head to toe when I see that through me, poor wretched man that I am, God the Lord maddens and exasperates the hellish and worldly princes... while I sit under the shade of faith and the Lord's Prayer, laughing at the devils and their crew as they blubber and struggle in their great fury».

Ostensibly, I'm there to get basics — eggs, milk, a green vegetable so I don't get scurvy from my insane flour consumption #bakerlife.

Strict human carnivores have to eat it raw or lightly cooked to get enough to prevent scurvy (not to mention whatever other issues come from being deficient)-- and even then many of them have had to admit defeat and start supplementing with Vitamin C because their teeth are loosening, amid other scurvy symptoms.

Various weaning foods from pap to evaporated milk were used, often fortified with cod liver oil and orange juice to prevent scurvy.

Scurvy was at one time common among sailors and others who were on ships, whose ships were out to sea longer than perishable fruits and vegetables could be stored and by soldiers who were similarly separated from these foods for extended periods.

The cedar's common name, arborvitae, which means «tree of life,» dates from the 16th century, when French explorer Jacques Cartier and his men brewed tea from its bark and leaves to overcome scurvy.

Who knew that the word grog came from the nickname of the first British admiral to issue his men a scurvy - averting ration of rum, water, and lemon juice?

It's no different to the vitamin C which you consume in an orange, the same vitamin C which could save you from death by scurvy if you were a 18th century pirate on a long - haul voyage.

Insufficient vitamin C, for instance, causes scurvy, which results from defective collagen, a protein in connective tissue.

If heart disease is chronic scurvy, caused by chronic vitamin C deficiency, then it makes sense to supplement with vitamin C in the amounts needed to make strong collagen and prevent arterial damage from mechanical stress.

Failure to consume proper amounts will result in scurvy, involving liver spots on the skin, spongy gums and bleeding from the mucus membranes.

The loss of function mutation in L - gulonolactone oxidase occurred in the common ancestor to Haplorhini, at least 65 million years ago, so every ancestor since then prevented scurvy with dietary vitamin C from fruits and leafy greens.

In fact, many of the manifestations of scurvy (vitamin C deficiency) are from a decrease in collagen synthesis.

The health benefits of lime include weight loss, skin care, eye care, improved digestion, respiratory disorders, urinary disorders and relief from constipation, and treatment of scurvy, piles, peptic ulcer, gout, and gums.

This conversion takes place with aid from vitamin C, which is why the now uncommon disease of scurvy results in weak and flimsy skin.

One of the symptoms of scurvy (extreme vitamin C deficiency) is bleeding from the mucus membranes, including the gut lining.

Besides taking Vitamin C to rebuild the artery wall from the damage scurvy causes he suggests taking Phosphatidyl Choline.

From that day forth, just about every smart captain of a long haul journey would bring a crateful of oranges with them, and slowly scurvy faded to a distant memory.

Scurvy is a disease of basically hemorrhaging of the various capillaries in the body because of lack of vitamin C and the — I think it was the British or the people over in the UK area, they were called limeys because they figured out when they would travel over from the UK to the US hundreds of years ago that people would die if they didn't have vitamin C.

Our last post (on scurvy) argued that very low - carb dieters are probably inefficient at recycling vitamin C from its oxidized form, dehydroascorbic acid or DHAA.

Furthermore, it helps to promote eye health and prevents all the diseases that occur from vitamin C deficiency like scurvy, sclerosis, and easy bruising.

Wade's chief rival in the treasure hunt — at least until they join forces to combat the meanies from IOI (Innovative Online Industries) and its scurvy head of operations, Nolan Sorrento (Ben Mendelsohn)-- is Samantha, also known as Art3mis (Olivia Cooke), a sprite named after the Greek goddess of the hunt who zooms around on her Kaneda bike from the movie «Akira.»

Writer Peter Straughan, plummeting from the Oscar - nominated heights of «Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,» panders to moviegoers the way scurvy politicians pander to ignorant voters.

In order to prevent poor wound healing as well as scurvy (a deficiency of vitamin C leading to abnormalities ranging from lethargy, gum disease, bone and muscle pain, etc.), guinea pigs and primates must obtain their vitamin C needs from dietary intake.

Emma Withington reports from the London Games Festival... Could World's Adrift succeed where Sea of Thieves has developed scurvy?

For example, the album includes what I think was a rendition of the «Green Hill Zone Theme» from Sonic the Hedgehog 2 along with «The Legend of Zelda Title Theme» to newer material like «Minecraft Theme 1» and the «Scurvy Scallywags Theme» to even more obscure tracks like the «Outlaws Title Theme» and «Medicated Cow Walks the Cobbled Streets with Disgruntled Goat» from Ravenshire Castle.