Beverly,
I agree 100%!
Emmanuel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Beverly Erlebacher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 2:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Gecko] Calcium carbonate (long)
> > > Which apple? Which orange? Northern Spy apples have 10 times the
> > > vitamin C of Macintoshes.
> >
> > Hmmm.......that's good to know - sometimes I throw apple slices in for
the
> > crickets, too.
>
> I don't know if there is evidence that any reptiles or insects require
> vitamin C. Even among mammals, AFAIK, only humans and some other
primates,
> and guinea pigs are known to require vitamin C, everything else makes its
> own. Inability to synthesize vitamin C seems to be a defect that an
animal
> can get away with if it normally eats a diet with a lot of fruit and other
> high vitamin C foods. For other critters, vitamin C isn't a vitamin.
(For
> another example, the whole cat family requires taurine, an amino acid,
found
> only in meat. It's a vitamin for them, but not for other mammals, like
us,
> who can synthesize it. Cats on vegetarian diets go blind and get
degenerative
> disease of the heart and other organs, just as people with scurvy lose
their
> teeth and are unable to heal wounds.)
>
>
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