Sentences with phrase «scurvy if»

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

And of course the approach has had many successes — taking vitamin C really does ward off scurvy if, for whatever reason, you're subsisting on a diet devoid of vitamin C.

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.

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.

You are susceptible to dangerous bouts of scurvy if you strictly adhere to the guidelines.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

If you're someone who hates veggies and fruits or you're a sailor at sea for months on end (scurvy anyone?!)

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

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.

So they found that if they just brought whole bunch of limes and ate these limes that they would avoid scurvy.

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.

If a guinea pig has been diagnosed with scurvy, it is critical that he be started on vitamin C immediately.

Neither is able to walk properly; the scurvy causes joint swelling and pain forcing them to hop like rabbits if they are able to move at all.

(If you need an analogy to help understand how a tad of iron is so powerful a restorative, compare to the impact of vitamin C in preventing scurvy.