On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, at 02:13 AM, Mary French wrote:
> For those concerned about vitamins, Voegtlin's book The Stone Age Diet
> has a chart demonstrating that all the necessary vitamins can be
> obtained from meat, with the exception of C, which apparantly can be
> manufactured by the body, because Inuits eating a meat-only diet do
> not get scurvy (but sailors eating salt-preserved meats did)
C is in uncooked meat.
Some natives nibbled spruce greens in the winter, and taught the white
men to do the same.