vitamin-C deficiency causes,prevention and medics...... 8 and 7 grade suitable

1. VITAMIN-CDEFICIENCYscurvy

2. About Vitamin-C
 Vitamin-C is essential for healthy blood
vessels,bones and teeth.People who lack this
vitamin suffer from the disease scurvy.The
mouth and gums become swollen and sore.The
teeth may become loose.

3.  To prevent such diseases we should have a
balanced diet and eat citrus fruits and green
vegetables

4. PREVENTION OF SCURVY
Scurvy can be prevented by a diet that includes certain citrus fruits
such as oranges or lemons. Other sources rich in vitamin c are fruits
such as blackcurrants, guava, kiwifruit, papaya, tomatoes, bell
peppers, and strawberries. It can also be found in some vegetables,
such as carrots, broccoli, potatoes, cabbage, spinach and paprika.
Some fruits and vegetables not high in vitamin C may
be pickledin lemon juice, which is high in vitamin C. Though
redundant in the presence of a balanced diet,[11] various nutritional
supplements are available that provide ascorbic acid well in excess
of that required to prevent scurvy, and even some candies and
most soft drinks contain vitamin C as a preservative.

5.  Many animal products, including liver, Muktuk (whale skin), oysters, and
parts of the central nervous system, including the brain, spinal cord, and
adrenal medula, contain large amounts of vitamin C, and can even be
used to treat scurvy.
 Fresh meat from animals which make their own vitaminC (which most
animals do) contains enough vitamin C to prevent scurvy, and even
partly treat it.This caused confusion in the early history of scurvy, since
the disease was only seen in people eating long-preserved diets or
canned goods, but not in people eating any sort of fresh diet, including
arctic diets primarily based upon meat. In some cases (notably in French
soldiers eating fresh horse meat) it was discovered that meat alone,
even partly cooked meat, could alleviate scurvy. Some of these
observations that scurvy was only associated with preserved foods,
prompted explorers to blame scurvy upon some type of tainting or
poison which pervaded tinned foods.
 Treatment
 Scurvy can be treated by eating food containing vitaminC such as
oranges, papaya, strawberries, lemon, tablets with vitamin C, etc.

6.  The body stores very little Vitamin-C so it should be
supplied daily in the diet.Good sources of vitamin-c
include citrus fruits,raw cabbage,strawberries,green
vegatables,onion,carrots,potatoes and tomatoes.

7. Thank you
DONE BY SRAJAN.