Nyla Kashani
Mr.Dapp
Pd:4
Ascorbic Acid
During the age of Discovery, scurvy, a devastating disease that caused extreme amount of deaths that generally resulted from an acute infection such as pneumonia, respiratory ailment, or heart failure. Scurvy was created by deficiency of the ascorbic acid molecule. Ascorbic acid is also known as well as better known as Vitamin C. Ascorbic acid is not produced naturally in the body because humans lack gulonolactone oxide. Gulonolactone oxide is the enzyme necessary for the final step of the production of Vitamin C. So being that humans cannot produce Vitamin C on their own, we must get our daily supply of Vitamin C from food. Ascorbic acid affects the production of collagen. Collagen is responsible for skin’s firmness and elasticity. Ascorbic acid affected where the ships had to stop, they stopped because of the need for fresh fruits to prevent scurvy. All in all, ascorbic acid had an influence on the course of history and apart of future as well. Ascorbic acid is used as preventative measure against the common cold, cancer, and of course scurvy.
Oh Nyla, I didn’t know that ascorbic acid is used as a preventative measure used against against the common cold, or cancer; or that collagen is responsible for skin’s firmness and elasticity! Look at you, actually reading and stuff, tell me something…
Scurvy, is a devastating disease cause by a deficiency of the ascorbic acid; also known as Vitamin C. Back in the day, scurvy was common at sea and included: exhaustion and weakness, swelling of the arms and legs, softening of the gums, excessive bruising, hemorrhaging from the nose and mouth, foul breath, diarrhea, muscle pain, loss of teeth, lungs, and kidney problems. Scurvy, or lack of Vitamin C, was one of the major cause of death at sea; for example, Vasco da Gamma in 1497 who loss 100 out of 160- member crew. Later on, in 1747, Scottish surgeon James Lind did a study of 12 scurvy infected men, with positive results from the men who received citrus fruit. Prior to, Captain James of the British Royal Navy, who maintained a high level of diet and hygiene requirement aboard ships. All crew members were required to eat fresh fruit and vegetables, all high in Vitamin C, which eventually made traveling by sea bearable.
Ascorbic acid, or Vitamin C, comes from the root word ‘vital’, meaning necessary and ‘amine’, meaning a nitrogen-containing organic compound. Ascorbic acid starts from glucose to an oxidized enzyme glucuronic acid, reducing the enzyme to gluonic acid. After this process, gulonic acid goes to gulonolactone, which eventually oxides into ascorbic acid. Despite the fact that 60 years of work went into researching ascorbic acid, scientist are still unaware of the roles this acid takes part in the human body.
The RDA, also known as Recommended Daily Allowance, advices 60 milligrams of Vitamin C in adults per day. Further research is still being continued on the roles of Vitamin C in more than 40 other diseases.
i like your summary. your introduction was goood & I learned a lot just in the little bit that you wrote. I never knew that asorbic acid was another name for vitamin C. good job!
Ascorbic Acid
Ascorbic acid is more commonly known as dietary Vitamin C. When a person is deficient in ascorbic acid a disease called scurvy may result. Scurvy has many symptoms such as exhaustion, weakness, swelling of the arms and legs, softening of the gums and kidney and lung problems. Scurvy is a disease that has been around for centuries. In the 1747 the first controlled clinical study of scurvy was done they found the effectiveness of citrus juice to cure scurvy. The word vitamin comes from two words vital and amine which is a nitrogen containing organic compound. The C in vitamin C indicates that it was the third vitamin ever identified. The Indian fruit bat, guinea pigs and primates are the only mammals that require vitamin C in their diet. In all other vertebrates ascorbic acid is made in the liver from simple glucose and is not there for a dietary necessity.
Dear Jush, your summary is very insightful. For example I did not know that Ascorbic Acid was another name for Vitamin C. Thank you Jush for teaching me that.
Back when sailing was the main way of traveling, scurvy was the number one problem and cause of deaths. Scurvy is an scient diease. Changes in bone structure in Neolithic reamins are though to be compatible with scurvy and hieroglyphs from acient Egypt have been interpreted as refering to it. It brought Davy Jones more bodies than all other causes including, the total number of deaths from piracy, shipwrecks, naval battles, and other causes. The symptoms of scurvy were nasty and cadaverous in nature. Even in the twentieth century few Antarctic explorers still supported theories that putrefaction of preserved food, acid intoxication of the blood and bacterial infections were the cause of Scurvy. You would find exhaustion and weakness, swelling of arms and legs, softening of the gums, excessive bruising, hemorrhaging from the nose and mouth, foul breath, muscle pain, loss of teeth, lung and kidney problems, and finally pernicious diarrhea. To prevent scurvy, ships would need to have a course plan so on long sailing trips, you would be able to port in certain places that would sell fresh fruits and veggies. These actions had consequences. It resulted in the prevention of discovering some new islands. Scurvy is caused from a lack of ascorbic acid. Ascorbic acid is another name for Vitamin C. Vitamin C can’ t be produced naturally in the body due to humans lack of gulonactone oxidase, the enzyme necessary for the final step of the production of ascorbic acid. Therefore, we must get or daily supplies of Vitamin C from our food. In present times, Vitamin C’s main use is as an antimocrobial agent for the preservation of food, as a preventative measure against the common cold, cancer, and scurvy, as well as an antioxidant. Had the value of ascorbic acid been recognized eariler, the world today might be a very different place. Such speculation leads us to conclude that ascorbis acid deserves a prominet place in history and geography of the world.
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May 7th, 2012 at 6:57 pm
Nyla Kashani
Mr.Dapp
Pd:4
Ascorbic Acid
During the age of Discovery, scurvy, a devastating disease that caused extreme amount of deaths that generally resulted from an acute infection such as pneumonia, respiratory ailment, or heart failure. Scurvy was created by deficiency of the ascorbic acid molecule. Ascorbic acid is also known as well as better known as Vitamin C. Ascorbic acid is not produced naturally in the body because humans lack gulonolactone oxide. Gulonolactone oxide is the enzyme necessary for the final step of the production of Vitamin C. So being that humans cannot produce Vitamin C on their own, we must get our daily supply of Vitamin C from food. Ascorbic acid affects the production of collagen. Collagen is responsible for skin’s firmness and elasticity. Ascorbic acid affected where the ships had to stop, they stopped because of the need for fresh fruits to prevent scurvy. All in all, ascorbic acid had an influence on the course of history and apart of future as well. Ascorbic acid is used as preventative measure against the common cold, cancer, and of course scurvy.
May 11th, 2012 at 12:08 pm
Oh Nyla, I didn’t know that ascorbic acid is used as a preventative measure used against against the common cold, or cancer; or that collagen is responsible for skin’s firmness and elasticity! Look at you, actually reading and stuff, tell me something…
May 11th, 2012 at 12:17 pm
I didn’t know that ascorbic acid affected the production of collagen, which in turn, is responsible for skin’s firmness and elasticity, Interesting…
May 7th, 2012 at 8:59 pm
Scurvy, is a devastating disease cause by a deficiency of the ascorbic acid; also known as Vitamin C. Back in the day, scurvy was common at sea and included: exhaustion and weakness, swelling of the arms and legs, softening of the gums, excessive bruising, hemorrhaging from the nose and mouth, foul breath, diarrhea, muscle pain, loss of teeth, lungs, and kidney problems. Scurvy, or lack of Vitamin C, was one of the major cause of death at sea; for example, Vasco da Gamma in 1497 who loss 100 out of 160- member crew. Later on, in 1747, Scottish surgeon James Lind did a study of 12 scurvy infected men, with positive results from the men who received citrus fruit. Prior to, Captain James of the British Royal Navy, who maintained a high level of diet and hygiene requirement aboard ships. All crew members were required to eat fresh fruit and vegetables, all high in Vitamin C, which eventually made traveling by sea bearable.
Ascorbic acid, or Vitamin C, comes from the root word ‘vital’, meaning necessary and ‘amine’, meaning a nitrogen-containing organic compound. Ascorbic acid starts from glucose to an oxidized enzyme glucuronic acid, reducing the enzyme to gluonic acid. After this process, gulonic acid goes to gulonolactone, which eventually oxides into ascorbic acid. Despite the fact that 60 years of work went into researching ascorbic acid, scientist are still unaware of the roles this acid takes part in the human body.
The RDA, also known as Recommended Daily Allowance, advices 60 milligrams of Vitamin C in adults per day. Further research is still being continued on the roles of Vitamin C in more than 40 other diseases.
May 12th, 2012 at 11:14 pm
i like your summary. your introduction was goood & I learned a lot just in the little bit that you wrote. I never knew that asorbic acid was another name for vitamin C. good job!
May 7th, 2012 at 10:06 pm
Ascorbic Acid
Ascorbic acid is more commonly known as dietary Vitamin C. When a person is deficient in ascorbic acid a disease called scurvy may result. Scurvy has many symptoms such as exhaustion, weakness, swelling of the arms and legs, softening of the gums and kidney and lung problems. Scurvy is a disease that has been around for centuries. In the 1747 the first controlled clinical study of scurvy was done they found the effectiveness of citrus juice to cure scurvy. The word vitamin comes from two words vital and amine which is a nitrogen containing organic compound. The C in vitamin C indicates that it was the third vitamin ever identified. The Indian fruit bat, guinea pigs and primates are the only mammals that require vitamin C in their diet. In all other vertebrates ascorbic acid is made in the liver from simple glucose and is not there for a dietary necessity.
May 11th, 2012 at 12:08 pm
Dear Jush, your summary is very insightful. For example I did not know that Ascorbic Acid was another name for Vitamin C. Thank you Jush for teaching me that.
May 13th, 2012 at 9:04 am
I believe your summary is good but I feel you shouldn’t have focused so much on scurvy and focused more on other aspects of ascorbic acid.
May 7th, 2012 at 10:37 pm
Back when sailing was the main way of traveling, scurvy was the number one problem and cause of deaths. Scurvy is an scient diease. Changes in bone structure in Neolithic reamins are though to be compatible with scurvy and hieroglyphs from acient Egypt have been interpreted as refering to it. It brought Davy Jones more bodies than all other causes including, the total number of deaths from piracy, shipwrecks, naval battles, and other causes. The symptoms of scurvy were nasty and cadaverous in nature. Even in the twentieth century few Antarctic explorers still supported theories that putrefaction of preserved food, acid intoxication of the blood and bacterial infections were the cause of Scurvy. You would find exhaustion and weakness, swelling of arms and legs, softening of the gums, excessive bruising, hemorrhaging from the nose and mouth, foul breath, muscle pain, loss of teeth, lung and kidney problems, and finally pernicious diarrhea. To prevent scurvy, ships would need to have a course plan so on long sailing trips, you would be able to port in certain places that would sell fresh fruits and veggies. These actions had consequences. It resulted in the prevention of discovering some new islands. Scurvy is caused from a lack of ascorbic acid. Ascorbic acid is another name for Vitamin C. Vitamin C can’ t be produced naturally in the body due to humans lack of gulonactone oxidase, the enzyme necessary for the final step of the production of ascorbic acid. Therefore, we must get or daily supplies of Vitamin C from our food. In present times, Vitamin C’s main use is as an antimocrobial agent for the preservation of food, as a preventative measure against the common cold, cancer, and scurvy, as well as an antioxidant. Had the value of ascorbic acid been recognized eariler, the world today might be a very different place. Such speculation leads us to conclude that ascorbis acid deserves a prominet place in history and geography of the world.