Sentences with phrase «not scurvy»

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That isn't to say we don't need small amounts of vitamins to survive — without vitamins like A, C, and E, for example, we have a hard time turning food into energy and can develop conditions like rickets or scurvy.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

If you didn't supplement it, babies were at risk of developing scurvy and rickets.

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

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:

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

Price doesn't solve these mysteries — no one has, at least not yet — but her investigation, full of scurvy - ridden sailors, questionable nutritional supplements and solid science, is both entertaining and enlightening.

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.

So it's not like a cure, like, «Hey, you have scurvy.

I would hope, the goal is not only to prevent scurvy, but to promote optimal health.

While 60 mg will prevent scurvy, it will not prevent free radical damage.

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.

Please note that water fasting can not cure diseases caused by deficiency of insufficient nourishment like scurvy and rickets, congenital problems, etc..

Eventually, scientists fed sailors on long haul flights around the British Empire citrus fruits and noticed that scurvy mysteriously didn't occur.

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.

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.

I had a fairly severe case of scurvy and don't recall being attracted to sweet flavors.

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!).

The Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag Limited Edition (scurvy not included) arms gamers and pirates alike with:

In 2007, the evidence arose indicating that B might not have had deliberate injuries but that his fractures were attributable to scurvy and / or iron deficiency as a result of consuming only soya milk.

At the time scurvy was regarded as unknown in the West and had not been considered as an explanation for the injuries.