[email hidden] (gareth) wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...
Quoted message said:A while back I was reading an interesting article from the
now defunct LIFE magazine about leaching and Vitamin C.
It was an article about Vitamin C difficiency amongst poor
farmers in the USA(sorry I'm not sure where). Anyway they
were comparing white and black farmers and were noting how
black farmers showed little/no signs of vitamin C
difficiency.The white farmers showed signs of vitamin C
difficiency despite the fact that they ate pretty much the
same thing as black farmers.
It turns out that the black farmers had the habit of using
the leftover broth from the cooking and soaking it into
their bread. The white farmers however would throw away
the cooking liquid.
The article was arguing how vitamin C (water soluble) gets
leached into the cooking liquid.
Interesting stuff. A couple of important things about C is
that humans cannot synthesize it, it must be gotten from
food, and it is unstable, it degrades with time and heat.
The sources must be relatively fresh for any quantity of C
to remain intact. It degrades over the course of as little
as a few hours or a few days after the produce is picked.
When is the last time you ate produce fresh from the plant?
How do you know how long produce has been in storage or
transit? And a lot of produce is picked early to ripen in
transit, which means that it never developed its full
vitamin C content to begin with. Some strains of citrus have
been bred for traits other than vitamin C content and have
been shown to contain virtually no C, how do you know that
the orange that you are eating isn't one of those strains?
Also smoking depletes vitamnin C.
With fewer good fresh sources of vitamin C and the increase
of consumption of refined carbs and grains which contain no
C at all, it is very likely that sub-clinical vitamin C is
the norm and not the exception. Symptoms would include
lassitude, malaise, bleeding gums, loss of teeth,
nosebleeds, bruising, hemorrhages in any part of the body,
easy infections, poor healing of wounds, deterioration of
joints, brittle and painful bones. and death.
internetwks.comanas.htmlOpen ↗
Interesting that we've known about this since the mid-1700s,
yet most doctors wouldn't recognize a case if it walked into
their office, which I am sure occurs on a regular basis.
TC
