Humans have to maintain well balanced diets or they can develop vitamin deficiencies of certain vitamins and minerals, why does this not seem to be true for animals ?
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Animals for the most part still kind of operate on a survival level. Their natural diets provide the basics so that they don’t starve or lack any critical vitamins, but they aren’t really the peak of health. Animals in captivity tend to live far longer, healthier lives that their wild counterparts for this reason.
Humans, especially in the modern world, strive for optimal diets. Most vitamin deficiencies aren’t that extreme, and would just cause uncomfortable symptoms in the wild. In our cushy, controlled lives free from everything else that would bother us, we live longer, healthier lives, but need a wider variety of vitamins and nutrients to perform at 100% comfort at all time.
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