1. 1. VITAMIN-CDEFICIENCYscurvy
2. 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. 3. To prevent such diseases we should have a balanced diet and eat citrus fruits and green vegetables
4. 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. 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. 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.
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