Required Nutrient Intake Frequency

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Hi folks:

Here is an issue I have not seen discussed here. Can anyone

enlighten us as to whether there any nutrients (apart from air and

water) for which the body's storage capacity is so low that they

should be consumed with great frequency?

Say we ate just corn starch (the near perfect source of empty

calories!) to fully satisfy our need for energy, what nutrients would

we become deficient in first, and how soon would that be?

As an example, three months without vitamin C precipitates scurvy.

But I am thinking rather more short term than three months. Are

there nutrients, beyond straight calories, that we really do need to

get our appropriate allocation of weekly? Any thoughts?

Rodney.