Sentences with phrase «in scurvy»

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

If I said anything, it was probably in the scurvy or kidney stone posts.

A severe deficiency of vitamin C can result in scurvy.

It is good for putrid gums in the scurvy.

We no longer put leaches on infected arms, burn old ladies as witches, or sail in scurvy ridden boats, but for some reason, when it comes to religion, we are happy to entertain comical old fools whose minds are cast back centuries as somehow respectable.

Not exact matches

Such regress has happened before: In the nineteenth century, the (correct) vitamin C deficiency theory of scurvy was replaced by the false belief that scurvy was caused by proximity to spoiled foods.

It may also be a reference to a hardy variety plant which does not dry up in extreme dry summer but a plant that scurvies the summer and provide sustenance to life in hard times.54 In mystical Islam, the road to the stage of intimacy (uns) with God - for - us is reckoned to be lonely, for not many undertake this journey prior to death in a voluntary sort of wain extreme dry summer but a plant that scurvies the summer and provide sustenance to life in hard times.54 In mystical Islam, the road to the stage of intimacy (uns) with God - for - us is reckoned to be lonely, for not many undertake this journey prior to death in a voluntary sort of wain hard times.54 In mystical Islam, the road to the stage of intimacy (uns) with God - for - us is reckoned to be lonely, for not many undertake this journey prior to death in a voluntary sort of waIn mystical Islam, the road to the stage of intimacy (uns) with God - for - us is reckoned to be lonely, for not many undertake this journey prior to death in a voluntary sort of wain a voluntary sort of way.

For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded, Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken; No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.

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»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»in their great fury».

In the 16th century, Spanish sailors took chiles on voyages to ward off scurvy and ate two roasted peppers for dessert each day to improve their vision.

Dried mango powder called Amchur is highly beneficial in treating Scurvy (deficiency of Vitamin C).

Breastfed babies should not be routinely supplemented with vitamin C except in cases of obvious scurvy (vitamin C deficiency).

Doctors diagnosed an 11 - month - old baby in Spain with scurvy, a rare disease in developed countries, and believe his almond milk - only diet was to blame.

Scurvy can be caused by a diet deficient in vitamin C.

«This case presents scurvy as a new and severe complication of improper use of almond beverage in the first year of life,» the case study authors write.

A deficiency of vitamin C — which is actually rare in the developed world — can lead to a condition called scurvy, the symptoms of which include pain in the joints, fatigue, bleeding or inflamed gums and — in babies — problems with growth.

History tells us that British sailors would often develop scurvy as they had few fruits or vegetables in their diets during long voyages.

Scurvy was rampant in this age and sometimes caused hemorrhaging into the joints and eyes, producing symptoms similar to Columbus's.

In fact, all it takes to ward off scurvy is a daily dose of 10 milligrams, says Karen Fediuk, a consulting dietitian and former graduate student of Harriet Kuhnlein's who did her master's thesis on vitamin C. (That's far less than the U.S. recommended daily allowance of 75 to 90 milligrams — 75 for women, 90 for men.)

Scurvy — joint pain, rotting gums, leaky blood vessels, physical and mental degeneration — plagued European and U.S. expeditions even in the 20th century.

At age 17, he left home to enroll at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, subsisting on less than $ 1 a day — he calls it a forced experiment in avoiding scurvy — before landing a scholarship and earning an undergraduate physics degree at the University of Pennsylvania.

So, those who died had no luck in collecting or storing scurvy grass, and were apparently bad at building traps or aiming a musket.

Barents» group had severe scurvy when they left Novaya Zemlya in the summer of 1597.

They collected a large amount of Cochlearia officinalis — known as «scurvy grass» because it is rich in vitamin C — and simply scattered it on the floor of a vacant building to be eaten later.

Deficiencies, excesses and imbalances in diet can produce negative impacts on health, which may lead to diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, scurvy, obesity or osteoporosis, as well as psychological and behavioral problems.

In this case, what first looked like a case of physical abuse turned out to be a case of child neglect — with some of the skeletal abnormalities being caused by rickets and scurvy.

The official deficiency of Vitamin C is known as «scurvy», which although uncommon, can still occur in adults and children and is characterised by irritability, leg pain, and loss of appetite, shortness of breath, fever, tissue haemorrhaging and pain.

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.

Fact is, you are not going to «catch» the flu if your vitamin D blood levels are normal any more than a sailor would «catch» scurvy if he is consuming adequate vitamin C. Current estimates are that over 90 % of Americans are deficient in this all important vitamin.

It needs to be diluted in water before being consumed in order to treat jaundice and scurvy.

Vitamin C deficiency - Scurvy, first record in 1500 B.C. but sailors carried lime juice to prevent illness

While a severe deficiency of vitamin C ultimately leads to scurvy, variations in vitamin C levels have also been associated with a wide range of chronic complex diseases, such as atherosclerosis, type 2 diabetes and cancer.

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.

In fact, there's enough vitamin C in a potato to cure scurvIn fact, there's enough vitamin C in a potato to cure scurvin a potato to cure scurvy.

Dr. Peter Osborne: Simply because I want a diverse amount of vitamins and minerals in me and if I'm gonna be foodless or missing certain foods that are gonna be devoid or certain nutrients, I want as much of a variety to prevent major malnourishment diseases like beriberi, pellagra, or scurvy.

Besides these vital benefits, dried cranberries also aid in weight loss, prevent scurvy and reduce the risk of respiratory diseases.

It was taken on long voyages and prevented scurvy in the crew because it preserved sufficient quantities of vitamin C.

Christopher Columbus is credited with completing the lemon's global tour, as he brought it with him to America in 1493, and a few centuries later, in 1747, James Lind used it to cure scurvy in vitamin C - deficient sailors, though information about lemon and its nutritious properties were still misunderstood.

Lastly, this may be the most important piece of information on the page: The Unified Theory of Heart Disease, proposed by Linus Pauling and Mathias Rath suggests that subclinical vitamin C deficiency (scurvy), Lipoprotein small (a) and mechanical stress at key arterial sites (such as bifurcations) are the major players in causation of heart disease.

Philip Day, in his book health wars, describes heart disease as a «slow motion scurvy» caused by nutritional deficiencies of the 2 amino acids above + vitamin C — which cause damage to the arteries, which is then repaired by cholesterol (which then builds up eventually blocking arteries)(I'm pretty sure it was lysine and proline — you'd have to check).

Valued back in the day for helping to prevent and treat scurvy because of its high vitamin C content, limes are also full of antioxidants and fiber.

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

There was a disease many years ago with the lack of Vit C in the diet creating scurvy..

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.

(And ward off scurvy, in case you're concerned about that.)

Vitamin C is need in part to synthesise carnitine and creatine, but as these chemicals are present in meat, eating fresh meat reduces the requirement for vitamin C (something Captain Cook recognised in his 100 % successful campaign to prevent scurvy among his crew).

Vitamin deficiencies can result in a variety of health problems, such as scurvy, rickets, or pellagra.

Even though it's not a fruit, it has high levels of vitamin C. Vitamin C deficiencies cause dangerous diseases in humans like scurvy and sclerosis, but it can also present with something as minor as bruising.

And all that talk about scurvy in sailors, has to do with the fact that their main source of nutrition was biscuits and other dried food and a ration of rum (sugar again).

Lack of vitamin C has been associated with a number of health issues, including high blood pressure, stroke, and in severe cases, even scurvy.