BCP 102 AC: V7 (First Timers)

VITAMIN C AND SCURVY: You get most of your vitamins from meat.

VITAMIN C AND SCURVY: Vitamin K and B-12 is made from bacteria in the stomach. Amazing!

VITAMIN C AND SCURVY: Vitamin K is made from the power of UV light hitting the skin. 

VITAMIN C AND SCURVY: The killing disease scurvy is caused because of a lack of vitamin C.

VITAMIN C AND SCURVY: Citric acid is Vitamin C.

VITAMIN C AND SCURVY: In 1747 James Lind, a Scottish surgeon,  proved that scurvy could be cured by merely adding citrus fruits to one’s diet.

VITAMIN C AND SCURVY: In 1520, world-circumnavigating Magellan lost 208 of his 230 men because of small pox.

VITAMIN C AND SCURVY: Vitamin C is not a vitamin for many animals like porcupines and porpoises because they can make glucose sugar into vitamin C in their gall bladder.

VITAMIN C AND SCURVY: Scott’s team died because they got sick with scurvy and it weakened them. They ate fresh meat just as Amundsen’s team did.  But they overcooked the meat because the Brits didn’t like its taste. This destroyed the vitamin C in it and weakened them too much to make it to safety.

VITAMIN C AND SCURVY: Vitamin C is a necessary enzyme in making the stronger-than-steel molecular protein, collagen. Collagen is in skin, blood vessels, cartilage and bone.