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Undoubtably, sailors on long ocean voyages really did crave the fresh foods (fruit, vegetables, meat) which would have contained enough Vitamin C to prevent (an
by Reason077 8y ago
Undoubtably, sailors on long ocean voyages really did crave the fresh foods (fruit, vegetables, meat) which would have contained enough Vitamin C to prevent (and reverse) scurvy.
The problem was these were often not actually available on their voyages.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoWere they actually craving those foods, I think the solution to scurvy would have been discovered almost immediately. Alas, the human body rarely if ever communicates useful solutions in this way.