Scurvy resurgence highlights issues of food insecurity in Canada's rural and remote areas
--doctors identified 27 cases of scurvy caused by prolonged and severe vitamin C deficiency
**think food is expensive in the city? **
@BLuOXide Which means access to fruit & veg is frighteningly poor. Nobody should be getting scurvy in 21st century Canada!
'' (...) paid roughly $80 more for nutritional groceries each week ''
---if you live out of the cities and buy at any ''normal'' grocery store (i,e,: not a big box), this is about average 40$ to 100$ more per week compared to ''city prices'' .