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Diet, Healthy

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  • Crisped rice breakfast cereal, SEM
  • Garlic, sagittal view, MRI
  • Kiwi, sagittal view, MRI
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  • Raw ginger, SEM

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    Vitamin C, also known as a ascorbic acid, is a water-soluble vitamin, which means it is excreated by the body and needs to be replaced in our diet. Unlike most mammals, humans do not have the ability to make their own vitamin C. Vitamin C deficiency can lead to scurvy.

    Gwyneth Thurgood
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    Kiwi, axial view, MRI

    Alexandr Khrapichev, University of Oxford
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    Mae West on sex, health, and ESP.

    West, Mae | Date: 1975
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    Raw onion

    Karen Gustafson
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    Artichoke, axial view, MRI

    Alexandr Khrapichev, University of Oxford
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