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  • The Inuit avoided scurvy by eating some of their fish and meat raw during long Arctic winters. Apparently there is some vitamin C in raw flesh which is destroyed by cooking.

    The risk of parasite infestation increases, but they probably learned what to watch out for, just as they learned to avoid eating polar bear livers.