S.B. Feldman wrote:
> <<
>  Since people can live on raw animal diet for many months without developing
>  scurvy these foods must contain enough vitamin C, any web database
> notwithstanding. >>
> You are making the wrong assumption---the problem starts right away but the
> symptoms that develop and are recognized as scurvy only become evident as the
> ongoing effects of the deficiency cause deterioration that is ob
OK, lets rephrase what I said just so we don't argue about wording:
Since people can live on raw animal diet for many months without developing
symptoms of scurvy these foods must contain enough vitamin C to prevent scurvy
in that period of time.

This wasn't meant to imply that I think such amounts of C are optimal or anywhere
near that. Just enough to avoid scurvy during such a period of time. Apparently
enough to reproduce successfully, as Inuit have shown.

Ilya