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Scurvy

The difficulty of inventing a carnivorous diet that can lead to scurvy

Eleanor Konik
Jun 08, 2021
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After all the reading I've done about toddler diets, I unthinkingly assumed that vegetables are a vital part of a human diet and based a fairly important worldbuilding detail on this. This turns out to not necessarily be true, so I had to do some delicate research into nutrient sources...

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