Where to find your vitamin C
Where to find your vitamin C By ap Chef Peppi is the alter ego
of chef Bill Lombardo and cartoonist Thack Bui of the Washington Post Writers
Group. Write to them at pccomix@ pccomix.com.Most of us grew up drinking
orange juice with breakfast every morning. It was our mothers' way of ensuring
that we got our vitamin C for the day. While 4 ounces of orange juice -
one of those little "juice glasses" - doesn't have all of the recommended
daily...
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1993. Daily Breeze (Torrance, CA) - June 17, 2002
Vitamins E, C may counter effects of high-fat foods
Vitamins E, C may counter effects of high-fat foods RESEARCH:
Heavy meals may increase risk of a heart attack as much as fourfold. Researchers
have found that high intakes of glucose and high- fat, high-calorie fast-food
meals cause increases in the inflammatory components of the blood.They
also found that an extra dose of antioxidant vitamins E and C can block
this inflammatory response in the bloodstream."A meal high in calories
and fat caused increases in...
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1993. Tribune, The (San Luis Obispo, CA) - June 15, 2001
STUDY SHOWS VITAMIN C MAY HARM DNA AS IT PROTECTS CELLS, NUTRIENT
ACTS AS TOXIN-PRODUCING CATALYST IN TESTS
WASHINGTON -- The vitamin C pills taken by millions of health-conscious
Americans may actually help produce toxins that can damage their DNA, a
step toward forming cancer cells, a laboratory study suggests.In a study
appearing today in the journal Science, University of Pennsylvania researchers
said they found in test tube experiments analyzing the action of vitamin
C that the nutrient can act as a catalyst to help make a toxin that can
injure DNA, the body's genetic code. The...
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1993. Ventura County Star (CA) - June 10, 1998
Large vitamin C doses may not help
Vitamin C has been touted as a way to treat or prevent everything
from colds to cancer. The Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) is only 60
milligrams yet many Americans take pills totaling hundreds or thousands
of milligrams (mg). Recent research suggests that taking amounts of vitamin
C above the RDA could promote better health but large doses of supplements
may be useless or even dangerous. Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) figures
were developed to identify the amount of nutrients needed...
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1993. Watertown Daily Times (NY) - May 8, 1992
MODERATE DOSES OF VITAMIN C COULD ADD YEARS TO LIFE
A new study shows that vitamin C may help people live longer.
But it's better to get your dose from five daily servings of fresh fruits
and vegetables instead of vitamin pills, researchers reported today.Researchers
found that taking 300 to 400 milligrams of vitamin C daily may help men
live about six years longer than men who don't. For women, the benefits
are about one year. The U.S. government's recommended daily allowance of
vitamin C is 60...
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1993. The Daily Oklahoman - April 10, 1990
Influence of Vitamin C on Colds Examined in Several Studies
Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling says vitamin C prevents colds.My
wife says no, it only alleviates them. Some rsearchers say it does neither.As
I asked last week: Who's right?As it turns out, my wife is right.And the
vitamin C story teaches us something of human nature.In 1970, Pauling said
you could cut your rate of colds in half by taking vitamin C every day.Skeptical
doctors set out to prove him wrong.It didn't take long.In...
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1992. Morning Call, The (Allentown, PA) - October 24, 2003
To Buy...or not to buy ** Vitamin C with Fizz
Remember Fizzies, the fruit-flavored tablets you could drop
in water that would bubble as they colored the water and dissolved?Well,
just in time for the cold and flu season, a California-based company called
Alacer Corp. has made a similar product designed to boost immune systems
with extra Vitamin C called Emer'Gen-C. Emer'Gen-C is an effervescent drink
mix that comes in single-serving packets and 15 flavors. It also contains
up to 1,000 milligrams of vitamin C in...
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1992. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (WI) - April 14, 2002
More vegetables and fruit will help fill vitamin C needs
The nutrition advice we receive can be overwhelming. But getting
enough vitamin C is as easy as drinking a small glass of orange juice daily.
Vitamin C is essential in our diets to prevent scurvy, a disease with symptoms
of fatigue, skin and joint disorders, and decaying gums. Vitamin C has
a fascinating history. For centuries, scurvy afflicted people without access
to any vegetable or fruit products, wiping out armies, navies, explorers
and homesteaders. It became known that...
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1992. Associated Press Archive - March 28, 2000
Doctors warns against big doses of vitamin C during cancer treatment
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 from oxygen damage....
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1992. Associated Press Archive - March 27, 2000
Doctors warns against big doses of vitamin C during cancer treatment
Cancer patients who take large doses of vitamin C in the hope
of a cure might actually make their disease worse by inadvertently protecting
their tumors from radiation and chemotherapy, new research suggests. Doctors
caution they cannot prove the vitamin is harmful during cancer treatment.
But they say 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...
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