Vitamin C, Curbing The Scurvyby
k
has been studied in treatment against AIDS, cancer, glaucoma and even autism.
Vitamin C deficiency can cause Scurvy... using lime juice to prevent scurvy with the vitamin C in citric acids. It’s also been said that smokers...
Progress Announced in Scurvy Researchby
Seth Roberts ..Scurvy Institute (NSI) recently convened a 5-day conference to assess progress in the War on Scurvy..., NIH (National Institute of Health) and ASS (American Scurvy Society) have spent over $30 billion...
Ahoy, Ye Scurvy Scalawags!by
Rational Jenn
You'd better believe that I'm going to be talking like a pirate at the TSA security guard peopleguy station--or maybe they don't have a sense of humor about that sort of thing?
Hmmmm....think I'll stick with my previous
Get Those Creative Juices Flowingby
Tara Robertson
I have the flu. Or the plague. Or scurvy. Or something equally unpleasant that has made me rather useless for the past several days.
While I have been spending my days dragging myself from my bed...
A Study in Scarletby
Gena
Allow me to geek out for a moment: this week in Biochem, we learned about scurvy... in centuries past were susceptible to scurvy, since they had little access to fresh fruits or vegetables...
Assorted Linksby
Seth Roberts ..
submarine tunnel and giant terrain model , discovered via Google Earth. More here .
Nassim Taleb interview podcast .
Shades of Jane Jacobs: How the cure for scurvy was lost . “From...
Echinaceaby
Corry C.
Echinacea, also known by the names purple coneflower, coneflower, American coneflower, black Susan, black Sampson, comb flower, hedgehog, Indian head, Kansas snakeroot, scurvy root, and snakeroot...
Ahoy, Mateys!by
Rational Jenn
up lines, such as "Avast, me proud beauty! Wanna know why my Roger is so Jolly?"
So don't be scurvy...
History Repeating Itself: Fear of Bacteriaby
Seth Roberts ..
In the late 1800s in the United States, babies started developing scurvy; there was a veritable plague. It turned out that the vast majority of victims were being fed milk that had been heat treated...
Scurvy affect test results? PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
that there are some signs of scurvy which I seem to have i.e. my gums are a little red (but then again I hardly every brush... an experiment with guinea pigs were they compared antibody amounts which seemed the same in normal and scurvy induced guinea pigs. Assuming I had scurvy for a while what are the chances of my immune system...crap
World AIDS Day 2006: raising 'HIV/AIDS' Awareness
that originally clusters of cases of beriberi, pellagra and scurvy were also assumed to be caused by a transmissible infection: all this was subsequently shown to be totally wrong. Beriberi, pellagra and scurvy... that something is true because 'everybody says so' would do well to remember the wrong opinions concerning scurvy...crap
Cranberries: Flavonoid-rich, Antioxidant-rich Fruit for the Heart
Cranberries will soon be bursting on the scene, fresh from the fall harvest.
Cranberries have a rich history of uses for health. Cranberry poultices to heal wounds were used during American colonial days. Sailors carried cranberries on long voyages to prevent scurvy (vitamin C deficiency...crap
Vitamins B, C, D May Prevent Pain
was discovered long ago when diseases like scurvy, beriberi and rickets were common because of the widespread...crap
Cranberries and Cholesterol
would eat cranberries to prevent scurvy on long ocean voyages. Other benefits attributable to the cranberry...crap
Question for DissidentSaint
of the medicalization of homosexuality. Scurvy was thought to be caused by a microbe for 200 years, the implication...crap