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.

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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

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      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.

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        Yeah something tells me this isn’t so much a “cost of living thing”, junk food is more expensive then vegetables these days

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          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.

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            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