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I looked up why scurvy kind of went away and it’s bc you get vitamin c in potatoes which made so much sense bc who doesn’t love potatoes
Even before potatoes, scurvy was rare to the point of being almost unknown on land, simply because it is such a hard disease to get. You don't need a lot of Vitamin C to stave off scurvy, and just about anything that isn't 'grain and preserved meat' has SOME vitamin c in it.
Yeah something tells me this isn’t so much a “cost of living thing”, junk food is more expensive then vegetables these days
Even potato chips contain enough Vitamin C to stave off scurvy. It is a hard disease to get. The guy in the article sounds like he had other deficiencies too, so it might've been a cost of living situation for him, legitimately, but scurvy alone is something you have to work to get. Like 'meat-only diet' level malnutrition.
I thought for a second that couldn’t be the case bc mikaela peterson is on a carnivore diet but she’s probably rich enough to afford all kinds of supplements