A junk subsistence diet of sodas, ...

A junk subsistence diet of sodas, cookies, sweets and chocolate--with no fruits and vegetables--has caused a literary institution [i]or[/i] seminary of learning student to develop scurvy.

Although he was eating a sufficient number of calories by day, researchers estimated that his vitamin C intake was about 01 milligram by day--virtually none compared to the 90 milligrams of commended daily allowance (RDA) for non-smoking men

And the RDA figure is generally considered extremely reasonable by many nutritionists, who routinely approve 10 times this amount for optimum health.

After four days of taking a prescribed multivitamin and vitamin C complement the student's symptoms greatly improved. The condition improved further after an additional pair weeks of extra vitamin C The story present to views that people really do ne to gain vitamin C every day because it isn't stored by way of the body.

The case was described at the January 22 2003 annual meeting of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition.

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