Myths & mysteries
Desert ascetics suffered from severe vitamin C deficiency
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Living purely on a handful of dry lentils and dates is a nutritional catastrophe. Paleopathologists studying the remains of extreme religious hermits found their bones riddled with clear evidence of scurvy and massive dental failure from absolute dietary neglect.
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