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Poorer children hit hardest as scurvy makes a comeback in France (www.rfi.fr)

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Hospital doctors and researchers from France's public health research body (Inserm) and Université Paris Cité analysed trends among nearly 900 children hospitalised with scurvy in France over a nine-year period, until November 2023.

The study, published in the medical journal The Lancet, found the biggest increase in cases was among children aged four to 10, and largely those from low-income families.

"There would seem to be a link with poverty," said Ulrich Meinzer, the study’s coordinator and a paediatrician at Robert-Debré Hospital in Paris.

He underlined that 32.9 percent of the hospitalised children came from families receiving universal medical cover – an indicator of very low income.

"Nurses noted that some of the infected children had not eaten for several days," Meinzer told French news magazine Le Nouvel Obs.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

The food they provide people is absolutely horrible. But on the other hand, it’s totally possible to eat food that isn’t going to give you (most) common health problems. It’s just people can’t stop eating the stuff designed to get you addicted to food.

Eat fresh food. Don’t eat meat. I know, it’s not always easy or possible in different locations, seasons, incomes, etc.

But back to scurvy, that’s so wildly easy to prevent… James Lind (mostly) solved that problem in 1747