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    7 days ago

    Despite eating citrus most days, I developed scurvy as a result of dietary malabsorption. Now I have to take vitamin C supplements (among others).

    Yarrr

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        6 days ago

        Unable to absorb it. Chronic diarrhea has led me to have all kinds of nutritional deficiencies.

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        6 days ago

        malabsorption

        I can’t imagine growing citrus that was so utterly lacking in vitamin C as to cause scurvy. It takes very little.