scurvy

"A diet like this over weeks would lead to 'hidden hunger', increasing the risk of diseases like anaemia and scurvy" he said.

"Apparently around fishes' eyes is all vitamins, so she never had scurvy or anything."

Funk’s research also showed that the lack of certain vitamins would cause illness, including a disease called pellagra when the body lacked vitamin B3 and scurvy when it lacked vitamin C.

Before Brexit, imported bananas provided 44% of the United Kingdom’s total requirement of vitamin C, needed to keep its old nemesis of scurvy at bay.

Hunger-related diseases such as rickets, scurvy, and tuberculosis were widespread, and in the cities, death from starvation was becoming a daily occurrence.