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Re: Have you ever known anyone who was starving or malnourished as a result of poverty? [Re: s240779]
#19096461 - 11/06/13 05:11 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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potato chips Vitamin C 20%
fruit juice Vitamin C 100%
hungry man tv dinner Vitamin C 35%
lucky charms Vitamin C 14%
big mac Vitamin C 4 (% DV)
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Re: Have you ever known anyone who was starving or malnourished as a result of poverty? [Re: hidenseek1]
#19096495 - 11/06/13 05:16 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Some people have as many as one of those things in their diet. And 14% RDA from a bowl of Lucky charms certainly isn't enough to prevent scurvy.
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Re: Have you ever known anyone who was starving or malnourished as a result of poverty? [Re: hidenseek1] 1
#19096506 - 11/06/13 05:18 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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hidenseek1 said: potato chips Vitamin C 20%
Yeah potatoes actually have quite a bit of vitamin c.
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Re: Have you ever known anyone who was starving or malnourished as a result of poverty? [Re: psi]
#19096525 - 11/06/13 05:21 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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When I was younger, I had times where I only had 15$ a week for food....
But depending on what you eat, food prices were almost half 10 years ago. 15$ could make it on basics. Half gallon milk, rice, ramen, hot dogs, pot pies (3 for a buck!), burritos (3 for a buck!), spices from the dollar store (2 for 1$).
Times have changed
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Re: Have you ever known anyone who was starving or malnourished as a result of poverty? [Re: psi]
#19096534 - 11/06/13 05:22 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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My chicks little bro was was. He was 6'1 and weighed 110lbs cause his parents had a serious alcohol problem and never bought food.
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Re: Have you ever known anyone who was starving or malnourished as a result of poverty? [Re: psi]
#19096537 - 11/06/13 05:23 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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psi said: Yeah potatoes actually have quite a bit of vitamin c.
Heat kills vitamin C. Unless it's added in as a preservative, potatoe chips do not contain any vitamin C.
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Re: Have you ever known anyone who was starving or malnourished as a result of poverty? [Re: s240779]
#19096606 - 11/06/13 05:34 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Da2ra said:
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psi said: Yeah potatoes actually have quite a bit of vitamin c.
Heat kills vitamin C. Unless it's added in as a preservative, potatoe chips do not contain any vitamin C.
The first part of what you said is true, but cooking does not destroy all the vitamin C. Frying is about the worst though from what I'm reading though, destroying about 75%.
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Re: Have you ever known anyone who was starving or malnourished as a result of poverty? [Re: psi] 1
#19096630 - 11/06/13 05:39 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I've heard it argued that because we were all once apes and fruits were a big part of our diet, we need lots of vitamin C. Amounts that could only be feasibly met via supplementation.
Another feature of humans, that is strongly indicative of our vegetarian origins, is our inability to synthesise our own internal vitamin C. This trait is very rare but, where it occurs, the animals concerned (such as guinea pigs) eat a plant-based diet. In these cases ample supplies of the vitamin are available within the food. Vitamin C plays many extremely important roles within the human body. Research seems to be always finding more functions for this ‘miracle chemical’. These have been summarised by Dr. Ross Pelton in his book ‘Mind Foods and Smart Pills’: Vitamin C stimulates the immune system, enabling one to better resist diseases. Terminal cancer patients taking megadoses of vitamin C have been found to live longer. It promotes faster wound healing and reduces the amount of cholesterol in the blood. It is a powerful detoxifier and protects against the destructive power of many pollutants. In addition, it protects the body against heart disease, reduces anxiety, and is a natural antihistamine. A severe deficiency causes scurvy, and eventually death. Increasing intake has been found to increase mental alertness and brain functioning in a variety of ways. Vitamin C is the main antioxidant that circulates in the blood. When available in sufficient quantity, blood carries it around the body, washing over the cells to create a bath of protection.
Whenever a free radical turns up, a molecule of vitamin C gives up one of its own electrons to render the free radical ineffective. According to Pelton, this process may take place somewhere between 100,000 and a million times a second, depending on the body's level of metabolism and the amount of vitamin C available. Unfortunately, with each radical decimated, a molecule of vitamin C is lost, so the body rapidly loses its supply of vitamin C. Vitamin C is a key player in keeping our neural system healthy. The body has a system that operates like a kind of a pump to concentrate vitamin C around our nerves and brain tissue. These tissues have more unsaturated fats than any other organs in the body, making them more vulnerable to attack by free radicals and oxidation. The vitamin C pump removes vitamin C from the blood as it circulates to increase the amount of vitamin C in the cerebrospinal fluid by a factor of ten. The pump then takes the concentrated vitamin C from the cerebrospinal fuid, and concentrates it tenfold again in the nerve cells around the brain and spinal cord. Thus our brain and spinal cord cells are protected against free radical damage by more than a hundred times as much vitamin C as our other body cells. For such an important chemical, it is extremely odd that we are dependent on vitamin C from outside sources. But how much of it does the body need? Research carried out by the Committee on Animal Nutrition demonstrated that monkeys needed around 55 mg. of vitamin C per kilogram of body weight. When this measure is extrapolated to humans, a 150-pound person would need a daily intake of 3,850 mg. Nutritional science recommends that a human needs 45 mg. each day. This is just enough to prevent scurvy but not enough to keep the body functioning at an optimal level. We would not, and indeed do not, obtain the sort of levels our bodies really need from a diet high in meat and low in vegetables/fruit, but we would from one high in fruit, shoots and leaves. Analysis of wild plant foods eaten by primates shows that many of these foods contain notable amounts of vitamin C. The young leaves and unripe fruit of one species of wild fig was found to contain some of the highest levels ever reported. Our closest living relatives, the great apes, eat a diet that contains between 2 and 6 grams of vitamin C every day. When our ancestors were living in the forest they would have consumed similar amounts.
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Re: Have you ever known anyone who was starving or malnourished as a result of poverty? [Re: s240779]
#19096688 - 11/06/13 05:49 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I know a few people who have went hungry before, it was always their fault though.
Sold all their food stamps for drugs/alcohol, used every last penny they had for drugs/a;cohol, shit like that.
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Re: Have you ever known anyone who was starving or malnourished as a result of poverty? [Re: TrentBoyett]
#19096699 - 11/06/13 05:51 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Damn. Not the smartest move, heh.
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hidenseek1
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Re: Have you ever known anyone who was starving or malnourished as a result of poverty? [Re: s240779]
#19096732 - 11/06/13 05:56 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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awesome post d2
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