Diet that helps maintain or improve general health

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Crisped rice breakfast cereal, SEM

Garlic, sagittal view, MRI

Kiwi, sagittal view, MRI

Raw onion

Raw ginger, SEM

Tomato, sagittal view, MRI

Chia (Salvia hispanica) seeds

Cabbage, axial view, MRI

Kiwi, axial view, MRI

Granadilla, sagittal view, MRI

Ripening blackberry

Collage of mixed fruits and vegetables, MRI

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.

Mae West on sex, health, and ESP.

Artichoke, axial view, MRI

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Diet, Healthy

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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.

Kiwi, axial view, MRI

Mae West on sex, health, and ESP.

Raw onion

Artichoke, axial view, MRI

Diet, Healthy

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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.

Kiwi, axial view, MRI

Mae West on sex, health, and ESP.

Raw onion

Artichoke, axial view, MRI

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