Sentences with phrase «get scurvy»

(Kaytee Forti - Diet Pro Health Parakeet) Guinea pigs require a food formulated with appropriate levels of vitamin C or they will get scurvy and rabbits need a diet high in fiber.

And it's a leading distributor of fruit & veg — nobody's invented a new way of doing that recently, nor has anybody come up with a good substitute for fresh fruit & veg (Morgan Spurlock was bloody lucky not to get scurvy!).

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

Inuit people «never got scurvy» because they ate stomach lining, liver and other tissue of animals (sea and land) that ate green plants.

However one day a medical officer on board put two and two together and realised that nobody who ever ate oranges got scurvy.

Not exact matches

So the bottom line is, if you're eating your beef raw, and it's mostly liver and other organs, as well as grass fed to ensure the animal itself is getting enough nutrients first, you MIGHT be getting enough vitamin C just to avoid scurvy.

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.

And lastly, for all my fellow parents of picky eaters who are looking for a quick way to get a decent amount of veggies into their kid (that doesn't involve adding minuscule amounts of chickpeas and beets to freaking chocolate brownies), here's our smoothie recipe, aka The Reason My Child Doesn't Have Scurvy:

Moreover, not getting enough vitamin C leads to a disease called scurvy (36), so maintenance of plasma and tissue levels essential to avoid a deficiency.

For example, people can get a disease called scurvy if they lack certain vitamins.

I've also tried the same approach with martinis and so far have discovered that over-stuffed olives in a five - ounce glass confirm Archimedes Principle and prevent scurvy but fail to diminish the urge to get up and dance.