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.

  • PugJesus@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    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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      13 days ago

      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