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What's the minimum number of food items you can survive on exclusively and what are they? (programming.dev)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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[–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

If we are counting singular food items, surely haggis would be a better choice for mixed nutritional values. Both are probably lacking vitamin C though so I hope you like scurvy.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Scurvy is a disease where cells are starved by vitamin c... Vitamin C gets into cells via the GLUT-4 transporter. This transporter moves both glucose and vitamin c. In the context of a zero carb diet there is no glucose competing for the glut-4 transporter, so the natural vitamin c levels in the meat are sufficient.

    We knew in napoleonic times that soliders with scurvy could be cured with a horse meat diet (it's in the military medical books!)

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