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2023.  Daily News of Los Angeles (CA) - November 26, 1997 

VITAMINS COUNTER FATTY DIET IN STUDY,  HIGH DOSES OF C, E MAY BENEFIT ARTERIES  
  It sounds like a recipe for a coronary: Serve Egg McMuffins and Sausage McMuffins for breakfast, with slabs of fried hash browns on the side, to captive research subjects. You can almost feel arteries slamming shut.Yet when huge doses of vitamins C and E were added to the diet, an extraordinary thing happened: The subjects' arteries responded to the high-fat meal as though they'd eaten a low-fat bowl of corn flakes. Researchers caution that the small...

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2022.  The Dallas Morning News - May 1, 1996 

The latest vitamin C debate New skin product has fans and skeptics  
  In the battle for consumers' skin-care dollars, the usual weapons are packaging, advertising, promotions and brand identity. Not for Cellex-C, a vitamin C skin treatment distributed through dermatologists, upscale retailers and spas. Its packaging is simple. The company behind it does little advertising for the mass market, and it only recently hired a national public relations firm. And as a fledgling brand, less than a year old, Cellex-C does not have the cachet of a big cosmetics...

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2021.  Birmingham News (AL) - August 27, 1999 

VITAMIN C MAY EASE RAT STRESS, STUDY SAYS  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Megadoses of vitamin C reduced the effects of stress in rats and apparently can help boost the production of an illness-fighting antibody, a researcher from the University of Alabama at Huntsville says.In light of the findings, health agencies should consider increasing the recommended dose of the vitamin in humans, now based on the amount needed to prevent scurvy and anemia, said P. Samuel Campbell, chairman of the biological sciences department at UAH. His speech...

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2021.  Chicago Sun-Times - October 10, 1993 

Charting the Vitamin Effect Some Nutrients Show Disease-Fighting Traits  
  Can eating a diet rich in the antioxidant vitamins beta carotene, vitamin C and vitamin E reduce your risk of cancer, cardiovascular disease or cataracts? Some scientists says "yes."Oxygen damage (oxidation) to your cells may be partly responsible for the effects of aging and certain diseases. Researchers are studying how antioxidants in our food may protect against this damage. But how does new research translate into your daily diet? Is eating lots of fruits and...

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2020.  Lincoln Journal Star (NE) - April 11, 2000 

Vitamins are good, but beware huge doses, study says  
  WASHINGTON (AP) -- While Americans should have more vitamins C and E in their diets than currently recommended, huge doses of these vitamins and other antioxidants have no proven benefit and may even be harmful, government researchers said Monday. Antioxidants scavenge the body for roaming oxygen molecules known as "free radicals" suspected of triggering cancer and other disease. Many people routinely take high doses of vitamin C and other antioxidants in the belief that...

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2019.  State, The (Columbia, SC) - February 21, 1996 

ORANGES DRIP WITH VITAMIN C  
  What's not to like about an orange? It's colorful, it's nutritious and it tastes great.So go ahead and eat an orange, and while you're enjoying every juicy bite, you'll be getting nearly a whole day's worth of vitamin C. One orange provides an average 53 milligrams of vitamin C. That's 88 percent of the RDA for a healthy adult, writes Carol Ann Rinzler in ``The Complete Book of...

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2018.  Wichita Eagle, The (KS) - January 17, 1993 

IS VITAMIN C COMING IN OUT OF THE COLD?  
  It's as much a staple of most American medicine chests as aspirin and Band- Aids.Getting the sniffles? Pop a couple of tablets of vitamin C. Feeling a little rundown? Get out the C. Your third-grader came home with a runny nose? Go for the C. "It seems like everybody takes it, especially this time of year," said Barbara Whedon, a dietitian who does outpatient counseling at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia.Indeed, so many...

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2016.  Washington Post - January 9, 1996 

VITAMIN C INFUSIONS A BOON TO DIABETICS  
  Liquid doses of vitamin C infused directly into the bloodstream can improve blood vessel function in adult diabetics, possibly averting cardiovascular complications later in life, a new study suggests. The study was small and it remains unclear whether similar benefits can be attained with oral supplements of vitamin C. But if tablets prove as effective as the arterial infusions, vitamin C supplementation may become a routine way to help prevent the many cardiovascular diseases diabetics are...

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2016.  Washington Post - August 9, 1994 

VITAMIN C'S VALUE TO SMOKERS STUDIED  
  A small study of vitamin-popping hamsters suggests that vitamin C supplements may help prevent coronary artery disease in smokers, a finding that is sure to escalate the ever-widening dispute over the potential health benefits of vitamins Two large studies in the past four months have undercut the argument that vitamin supplements can help prevent cancer. But at least one large human study has concluded that vitamin E supplements can lower people's risk of cardiovascular disease....

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