Can you survive on wine if there is no water?

[alkemyst]

The "funny" thing is that when the British Navy started sucking on limes (hence, "Limies") to combat scruvy at the advice of a brilliant physician, this was a miracle treatment--I believe this was discovered in the 18th/19th century?

But when WW1, or maybe it was WW2 rolled around, limes were scarce and extremely expensive--or anyway they were hard to come by. Lemons were suggested as an equal alternative, without the lost knowledge that the vitamin C complement was greatly reduced when compared to Limes. As a result, scurvy returned in full force for quite some time.

yeah, we are screwed.

 

[alkemyst]

Yeah I'm pretty sure if you drank 30 drinks a day for more than about a week you'd be dead.

I am alive

 

[OverVolt]

6 drinks a day is quite a bit different than the 30 drinks a day your "doctor" said was OK. :biggrin:

He didn't say it was okay kind of the opposite... that was the threshold to be considering cirrhosis.