Vitamin C Part 2???? Eskimos?

[Steve Harris]

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> I'm still waiting for the sequel to the research/theories on Vit. C., it's
> lack of synthesis in humans---but how do Eskimo's survive on a
fish/blubber
> diet?

COMMENT:

You mean how did they, long ago? These days they drive their snowmachines
to the local store and buy frozen concentrated O.J.and multivitamins.

Animals synthesize vitamin C, and especially concentrate it in brain, spinal
cord, and adrenals. Eskimos once upon a time ate all this stuff, and
sometimes raw. Actic explorers who killed animals but fried the brains or
threw away the adrenals found themselves with scurvy. Not a good thing to
have in the cold.

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[Jean P Nance]

I have also read that in addition to the vitamin C in the meat and
fish they eat, Inuits (Eskimos) collected and dried berries in summer and
made pemmican from fat, dried meat, and the berries. It was also claimed
that they sometimes ate the intestinal contents of caribou, rabbits, etc.
which eat plant material. For sure, they apparently didn't suffer from
scurvy.