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Vitamin C Deficiency Leads to Poor Nutritional Choices

Drug Testing Equipment, Drug ScreeningCertain vitamins are responsible for creating hunger for different types of foods, which increase your nutritional variety and absorption. Vitamin C is one of those vitamins, and without it, your craving for healthy, raw, nutrition-rich foods can actually decrease over time. Vitamin C can actually lead to poor nutritional choices, and this can be entirely a chemical reaction, rather than just a poor decision. In fact, Vitamin C is responsible for many things, including bone development, calcium and magnesium absorption, nutrition absorption, and internal cravings for foods which your body needs to consume at a particular point in time. Interestingly enough, many pregnant women develop strong cravings for certain foods and even combinations of certain foods, and this is considered normal behavior. One does not always think to listen to any food craving that their body needs, simply because it is not something which people normally think about.

Deficiency of Vitamin C not only can reduce hunger for nutritional food, but it can result in bone and tissue rot in various forms, which is most notably depicted in sailors who have scurvy. However, some forms of canning did not last on long sea voyages, and Vitamin C-rich ingredients and fruits often spoiled in transit, anyway. Fortunately, some seafarers understood the power of fermentation, especially fermenting cabbage leaves (which results in sauerkraut), which are very rich in Calcium and Vitamin C, thus preventing the painful and unsightly scurvy which so many sailors used to be prone to. Fermentation lasts almost indefinitely and can easily take the place of canning, especially on long sea voyages, where proper sealing and dampness in the bottom of the ship were problematic to the food on board.

Nutrition is absolutely necessary in preventing and rehabilitating drug abuse or alcoholism, since it restores cells to their previous strength and makes them more intolerant of these poisons. Workplace drug testing is the ruler by which you can measure how often and how much this type of abusive behavior occurs on your own jobsite. Call us today for Mediscreen’s onsite drug and alcohol screening services throughout Australia: (+61) 1300 79 70 40.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07448489809600224

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