Sentences with phrase «other scurvy»

Even if outside income is banned, it will remain extremely easy for deep - pocketed special interests to give large amounts of money to lawmakers via the LLC loophole, the housekeeping account loophole, and various other scurvy methods that have made Albany synonymous with corrupt state government.

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.

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Scurvy solutions, other than citrus fruits, must have existed for centuries.

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.

Perhaps the most unusual treatments were two hot sauces, one to improve the appetite and the other to combat scurvy.

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.

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.

For example, vitamin C used to treat scurvy and other deficiency conditions is more effective when given as a natural food concentrate, which includes minerals, rutin and other analogs.1

Other fruits contain a lot more, especially the likes of pineapple, with 79 %, and the famous scurvy - preventing vitamin C of oranges, with 88 %.

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

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).

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.

The vitamin C present in meat, along with the vitamin C sparing effect of low carb diets is enough to prevent scurvy, even without going out of your way to eat liver or other organs.

Sailors coveted lemons, and other Vitamin - C rich foods, because of their ability to prevent scurvy on long voyages.

Many were covered in blotches — a sign of advanced scurvy — while others had been stricken with terrible tropical diseases.