Stargate Universe:

Elyse Levesque Gets Scurvy!

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Elyse joked that she gets scurvy when she spends such a long period of time indoors, filming her character Chloe reports Digital Spy.

"Day in, day out being in here is a lot to take," she said. "I start to get scurvy, I think. I need to go outside and get replenished, get my vitamins!"

It's not always a shut-in life, and according to Elyse everyone gets a little excited when they have to go on location for an episode.

"It's fun actually," she said. "It's like a field trip for all of us when we get to go on location. We all plan it and we all come out with our shorts and our boots and we're all so excited to go out and have fun. Some people like Jamil [Walker Smith] end up getting lost because they go on nature hikes during lunch. No, but it's fun."

Source:
http://sky1.sky.com/

(This is INCREDIBLE, especially considering Joseph Mallozzi’s repeated posts with regard to food and fine dining! Don’t they feed the cast anymore?)

Scurvy is a disease resulting from a deficiency of vitamin C, which is required for the synthesis of collagen in humans. The chemical name for vitamin C, ascorbic acid, is derived from the Latin name of scurvy, scorbutus, which also provides the adjective scorbutic ("of, characterized by or having to do with scurvy"). Scurvy leads to the formation of spots on the skin, spongy gums, and bleeding from the mucous membranes. The spots are most abundant on the thighs and legs, and a person with the ailment looks pale, feels depressed, and is partially immobilized. In advanced scurvy there are open, suppurating wounds and loss of teeth.

Scurvy was at one time common among sailors, pirates and others aboard ships at sea longer than perishable fruits and vegetables could be stored (subsisting instead only on cured and salted meats and dried grains) and by soldiers similarly separated from these foods for extended periods.

Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/