The cost-of-living squeeze and poor diets are putting people at a higher risk of developing scurvy, with a case caused by an acute vitamin C deficiency recently treated at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Perth.
I would not have thought this possible, since Vitamin C is added to so many processed foods these days.
Is it cheaper to leave vitamin C away? Or is it a conservation/by product? I’m asking because if they can leave it away they’ll do so. But I’m no expert in food processing nor vitamin addition laws.
Sometimes it’s used for flavour, and sometimes it is used to regulate acidity.
We thought we cured scury, like, 6 times and it keeps coming back.
“Arrr you’ll never defeat me” - scurvy probably
Canada too has seen this disease make a come back because of food inflation.
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
Doctors put him on a dose of 100 milligrams of vitamin C per day, as well as folic acid and multivitamins.
“He also started eating a lemon daily,”
Makes my teeth hurt
Christ people, eat some potatoes or some onions. My diet is pure dogshit and I still manage to not get scurvy. It’s a HARD disease to get. Other nutritional deficiencies are much easier to accidentally come across.
Didn’t know bariatric surgery was a risk factor though, that’s interesting.
How? Isn’t vitamin C everywhere? They have to have fruits and veggies, and even french fries and ketchup have some of the vitamin C. Like, I have an awful diet and I still manage to avoid scurvy. That’s wild.
