![]() “I immediately developed acid reflux,” he noted. “He said, ‘You’re really lacking in vitamin C,’ so then I took it upon myself to just drink a liter of orange juice every night,” the 46-year-old said. Scurvy, an ailment common in undernourished sailors centuries ago, is caused by vitamin C deficiency, as Blunt’s physician told him. “It took me about six to eight weeks to get very, very unhealthy (and) see a doctor, who then said, ‘I think you’ve got the symptoms of scurvy,’” Blunt recalled. “Out of principle, I decided I’d become a carnivore and just lived on mince, some chicken, maybe with some mayonnaise,” Blunt explained.īecause he eliminated foods that play an important part in a balanced diet, Blunt fell ill. So he got on the special-diet bandwagon, too. “And then on the sociology side of things, there were 170 girls and only three boys, of which all the girls were vegetarians or vegans.” “On the engineering side, there were 170 men and only three girls,” Blunt said. ![]()
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