Did You Know Just That Many Cancers Are Linked To A Vitamin Deficiency?
Vitamin
C deficiency
No bodily organ stores ascorbate as a primary function,
and so the body soon depletes itself of ascorbate if fresh
supplies are not consumed through the digestive system,
eventually leading to the deficiency disease known as scurvy
(a form of avitaminosis), which results in illness and death
if consumption of vitamin C is not resumed in time.
Acute scurvy
Acute scurvy is characterized by:
easy
bruising, or bruising with no apparent cause
loose teeth
superficial bleeding
fragility of blood vessels
poor healing
compromised immunity
mild anemia
Leading to massive internal hemorrhaging, scurvy is eventually
fatal, and was a common condition among sailors and during
winter. Acute scurvy is now very rare in industrialized
countries
Diseases caused by deficiency
Vitamin D deficiency is known to cause several bone diseases,
due to insufficient calcium or phosphate in the bones:
Rickets:
a childhood disease characterized by failure of growth and
deformity of long bones.
Osteoporosis: a condition characterized by fragile bones.
Osteomalacia: a bone-thinning disorder in adults that is
characterised by proximal muscle weakness and bone fragility.
Osteomalacia can only occur in a mature skeleton.
Pioneering work in isolating vitamin D and determining its
role in rickets was done by Edward Mellanby in 1918-1920.
Vitamin D deficiency is endemic in dark skinned races living
in high latitudes (see below).
Vitamin
D malnutrition may possibly be linked to chronic diseases
such as cancer (breast, ovarian, colon, prostate, lung and
skin and probably a dozen more types), chronic pain, weakness,
chronic fatigue, autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis
and Type 1 diabetes, high blood pressure, mental illnesses
(depression, seasonal affective disorder and possibly schizophrenia)
heart disease, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, tuberculosis,
periodontal disease and inflammatory bowel disease.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_C
