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NUTRITION AND DISEASE 3 vegetables were not practical because they would not keep for long. Most ships that were gone for a long amount of time were plagued with the disease. These ships were departing and arriving in different areas, had no contact with one another, were from different cultures and were losing between 75% and 90% of their men to the disease. The early symptoms were spongy gums, pain in the joints, and blood spots under the skin. As the disease advanced, the patients’ teeth would come loose, extremely bad breath, they would become too weak to walk and in too much pain to eat. They would usually die “mid-sentence” from a busted blood vessel. [ CITATION Ara132 l 1033 ] Without knowing the cause, naval physician James Lind, found and proved that adding citrus fruit to the sailors’ diets cured and prevented scurvy. Later it was discovered that the cause of scurvy i
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