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2010.  Morning Call, The (Allentown, PA) - April 24, 2001 

BBMak, Vitamin C, Dream to perform at Mayfair festival  
  Teen pop girl group Dream, whose debut disc "It Was All a Dream" is No. 6 on the Billboard album chart, will join headlining Brit boy band BBMak, dance-pop diva Vitamin C and 14-year-old Internet discovery Brooke Allison at Allentown's Mayfair festival May 25.Christina Aguilera and 'N Sync tribute acts Christina a la Diva and Sync 'In will open the free show at the Cabaret Stage at Cedar Creek Park, Allentown radio station WAEB-FM...

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2010.  Lancaster New Era (PA) - March 28, 2000 

VITAMIN C MAY HURT TREATMENTS FOR CANCER  
  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Cancer patients who take large doses of vitamin C might make their disease worse by inadvertently protecting their tumors from radiation and chemotherapy, new research suggests.Doctors said they cannot prove the vitamin is harmful during cancer treatment, but added that there are strong biological reasons to think megadoses could be bad. The concern is based on the discovery that cancer cells actually contain large amounts of vitamin C, which appears to protect them...

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2008.  Chicago Sun-Times - July 17, 1986 

Debating vitamin megadoses Pauling sees supplements as key to healthy life  
  Linus Pauling has ordered bacon, eggs and biscuits for breakfast, but has skipped the orange juice.The apostle of vitamin C already has eaten an orange in his hotel room, after waking up at 4 a.m. to ponder a chemistry problem. Pauling is convinced the vitamin C in that orange will help prevent just about every ill, from colds to cancer. But he would have to drink 200 glasses of orange juice to get his daily fix. So he obtains most of his vitamin C from a powder supplement. That explains...

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2006.  The Advocate (Baton Rouge, La.) - August 24, 1999 

Lots of vitamin C good for preventing illness  
  Megadoses of vitamin C reduced rats' normal response to stress, and that apparently is why they can prevent illness, an Alabama researcher told the American Chemical Society. Health agencies should think about increasing the recommended dose of the vitamin, which is based on the amount needed to prevent scurvy and anemia, said P. Samuel Campbell, chairman of the biological sciences department at the University of Alabama at Huntsville.His speech Sunday was, coincidentally, five...

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2006.  The Dallas Morning News - May 26, 1993 

The powerhouse vitamins: A, C and E  
  Think dark-green, orange and deep-yellow when you choose your fruits and vegetables, and you'll go a long way toward getting a healthful dose of important antioxidant vitamins.Study after study confirms the disease-fighting role of the antioxidants: beta carotene (the parent of vitamin A), vitamin C and vitamin E. These powerhouse nutrients appear to neutralize molecules called oxygen-free radicals, prime suspects in promoting cancer, heart disease and aging.But many...

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2005.  Watertown Daily Times (NY) - August 21, 1994 

2-NOBEL SCIENTIST LINUS PAULING DIES FAMOUS VITAMIN C ADVOCATE WAS 93  
  Linus Pauling, the only person to win two Nobel Prizes by himself but who became best known as a political activist and the controversial prophet of vitamin C, died Friday, according to a family member.Pauling, 93, died at 7:30 p.m. at his 160-acre ranch in Big Sur. There was no official word on the cause of Pauling's death, but he had been suffering from cancer. Few scientists made contributions to as many fields as Pauling, whose interests ranged from chemistry to molecular...

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2005.  Scripps Howard News Service - March 22, 1993 

SWEET POTATOES ARE AN OVERLOOKED SOURCE OF VITAMINS A AND C  
  Sweet potatoes are better meal material than anyone ever dreamed.The moist orange vegetable is rich in the plant form of vitamin A and vitamin C. It's one of nature's super foods that's been linked to reduction of some types of cancer risk. For instance, the connection between consumption of fresh produce and reduction of lung-cancer risk is strong, showing up in 14 of 15 studies, according to research from the National Cancer Institute.Like two...

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2004.  Waukesha Freeman (WI) - December 19, 2000 

O-Town meets O-town O-Town and Vitamin C rock Oconomowoc High School  
  OCONOMOWOC — Nearly 1,000 Oconomowoc High School students crowded together in the high school gym to hear the band O-Town and singer Vitamin C perform after school Monday.The free concert was the grand prize in the Pennies for Peace contest sponsored by WAMG 103.7 FM. Oconomowoc students collected more than 660,000 pennies for the contest to help prevent violence in schools. About 2.5 million pennies were collected by schools throughout southeastern...

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2003.  Washington Post - December 1, 1997 

WAY FOUND TO INCREASE VITAMIN C IN BRAIN  
  Researchers said yesterday they have found a way to sneak vitamin C past the so-called blood-brain barrier, the gatekeeper that protects the brain from infection. If the method they have tested on mice also works in people, it could offer a new approach to treating Alzheimer's disease and other diseases that come from damage to brain cells, they said.That is because vitamin C is a powerful antioxidant, working to prevent the damage caused by everyday life -- damage that leads...
 
 

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