Scurvy Back In The UK!

I believe capsicum is high in vitamin C as well.

Sadly scurvy has never really gone away in the lower socioeconomic areas of the western world. Poor education levels generally mean that even if they've even heard of it, they assume that it's a transmittable disease rather than a vitamin deficiency. Unfortunately people who haven't had the education to understand the risks also rarely have the money to spend on healthcare. Rickets still happens regularly too. There's a lot of things that we assume have gone away just because it's rare to hear about it.

It's depressing to report on the number of children who're permanently disabled thanks to chronic malnutrition, especially in your own country where we assume that SOMEone will prevent things like that.

They need to swap the Coke out for Fanta to get that vitamin c requirement. 

Generally, yes. I remember watching a British show a couple of years back about families who would buy take away every night of the week because they were so cheap and easy to get. In a lot of cases it cost the same amount as buying fresh produce but they didn't have to cook the food themselves. I remember being pretty shocked seeing young families sitting down to a kebab and chips every single night just because they didn't have to cook it.

But of course I was shocked. I was raised on fresh produce in a place where the only take out anywhere nearby was the local milk bar and their fish and chips. If I'd been raised that it was normal to feel sluggish and gross all the time and constantly have health issues from lack of proper nutrition I probably wouldn't know different. That show had several examples of people saying 'I can't believe how much healthier I feel!' just a few weeks later. But so often they'd go right back to it because of the ease and cheap prices.

Sometimes it's ignorance. Some times it's laziness. But the ones who stuck with eating 'real food' usually were so much happier and healthier when they went back to check on them.