2. About Vitamin-C Vitamin-C is essential for healthy blood
vessels,bones and teeth.People who lack this vitamin suffer from
the disease scurvy.The mouth and gums become swollen and sore.The
teeth may become loose.
3. To prevent such diseases we should have a balanced diet and
eat citrus fruits and green vegetables
4. PREVENTION OF SCURVY Scurvy can be prevented by a diet that
includes certain citrus fruits such as oranges or lemons. Other
sources rich in vitamin c are fruits such as blackcurrants, guava,
kiwifruit, papaya, tomatoes, bell peppers, and strawberries. It can
also be found in some vegetables, such as carrots, broccoli,
potatoes, cabbage, spinach and paprika. Some fruits and vegetables
not high in vitamin C may be pickledin lemon juice, which is high
in vitamin C. Though redundant in the presence of a balanced
diet,[11] various nutritional supplements are available that
provide ascorbic acid well in excess of that required to prevent
scurvy, and even some candies and most soft drinks contain vitamin
C as a preservative.
5. Many animal products, including liver, Muktuk (whale skin),
oysters, and parts of the central nervous system, including the
brain, spinal cord, and adrenal medula, contain large amounts of
vitamin C, and can even be used to treat scurvy. Fresh meat from
animals which make their own vitaminC (which most animals do)
contains enough vitamin C to prevent scurvy, and even partly treat
it.This caused confusion in the early history of scurvy, since the
disease was only seen in people eating long-preserved diets or
canned goods, but not in people eating any sort of fresh diet,
including arctic diets primarily based upon meat. In some cases
(notably in French soldiers eating fresh horse meat) it was
discovered that meat alone, even partly cooked meat, could
alleviate scurvy. Some of these observations that scurvy was only
associated with preserved foods, prompted explorers to blame scurvy
upon some type of tainting or poison which pervaded tinned foods.
Treatment Scurvy can be treated by eating food containing vitaminC
such as oranges, papaya, strawberries, lemon, tablets with vitamin
C, etc.
6. The body stores very little Vitamin-C so it should be
supplied daily in the diet.Good sources of vitamin-c include citrus
fruits,raw cabbage,strawberries,green
vegatables,onion,carrots,potatoes and tomatoes.