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1969.  Houston Chronicle - MAY 8, 1992 

Study suggests vitamin C link to a longer life  
  LOS ANGELES -- Men who consume a few hundred milligrams of vitamin C daily live about six years longer than men who don't, and the vitamin may extend women's lives by about one year, a study suggests. The U.S. government's recommended daily allowance of vitamin C is 60 milligrams for most adults. But the study indicates that consuming 300 to 400 milligrams daily might help people live longer, said its author, James Enstrom, an epidemiologist at the University...

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1969.  San Jose Mercury News (CA) - December 18, 1987 

VITAMIN C LOOKS GOOD AS A CATARACT PREVENTATIVE  
  VITAMIN C may prevent cataracts. That's the tantalizing suggestion of studies at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University in Massachusetts.Cataract researcher Allen Taylor of Tufts believes vitamin C may delay the clumping of crystallines, the elegantly aligned latticework of proteins that focus light on the retina. Clumped crystallines block, rather than focus, light. Result: cataracts. Animal studies find...

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1968.  The San Diego Union-Tribune - April 11, 2000 

Scientists urge limits on intake of vitamins C, E  
  You can get too much of some good things, including vitamins C and E, the federal government's watchdog for nutritional standards said yesterday. For the first time, the Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academy of Sciences, suggested limits on daily consumption of vitamins C and E to reduce the risk of adverse side effects from overuse.While institute scientists found that extremely large doses of the substances could cause health problems, the IOM also called for...

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1968.  Daily Breeze (Torrance, CA) - January 7, 1999 

IT CAN'T HURT?,  What vitamins do and what they don't do  
  Hospital dietitian Megan Murphy takes a multivitamin every day -- when she remembers to buy them.She also takes additional supplements of vitamins E and C even though she tries to concentrate on eating well to give her body what it needs. "I go with the premise that it doesn't hurt to take vitamins. You can't depend on it to fill all the gaps, but it might fill a few," says Murphy.Millions of people share the feeling that vitamin...

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1968.  The Dallas Morning News - April 16, 1996 

Higher daily does of vitamin C urged Report to recommend more than tripling amount to 200 milligrams  
  Americans should get more than triple the daily amount of vitamin C now recommended, a team of researchers will report Tuesday.An extensive study of America's most popular vitamin has found that 200 milligrams is the best dose, compared with the 60 milligrams now contained in most multivitamin supplements. Above 400 milligrams, money spent on the vitamin may literally go down the drain, as most higher doses simply pass through the body unabsorbed. The new research, appearing in...

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1968.  The Denver Post - October 12, 1994 

New studies reinforce claims for vitamin C  
  Eating more vitamin-C-rich foods or taking vitamin-C pills might make you live longer. Yes, there's new evidence that vitamin C may indeed be a "longevity" agent, as the late Linus Pauling claimed.UCLA researcher James E. Enstrom has done a new followup to his vitamin-C study reported a couple of years ago. The new data confirm that men getting 300 milligrams of vitamin C daily (about half from food) live five to six years longer than men getting only 25...

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1968.  St. Louis Post-Dispatch - May 8, 1992 

Vitamin C May Prolong Life, Study Says  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) - Men who consume a few hundred milligrams of vitamin C every day live about six years longer than men who don't, and the vitamin may extend women's lives by about one year, a study suggests. The U.S. government's recommended daily allowance of vitamin C is 60 milligrams for most adults. But the study indicates that consuming 300 to 400 milligrams daily might help people live longer, said its author, James E. Enstrom, an epidemiologist at the...

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1968.  Wichita Eagle, The (KS) - December 15, 1991 

VITAMIN C LEVEL LINKED TO DAMAGED SPERM  
  WASHINGTON Men with low levels of vitamin C are more apt to have genetically damaged sperm, researchers say in a study to be published today.Bruce Ames, leader of a vitamin C study at the University of California, Berkeley, said an analysis of sperm from 24 men showed that of 15 with below- normal levels of vitamin C, eight had high levels of genetically damaged sperm. "We know that you get into trouble if your level of vitamin C drops below the recommended daily...

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1968.  Washington Post, The (DC) - April 25, 1984 

Q: Is there any truth to the claim that Vitamin C  
  Q: Is there any truth to the claim that Vitamin C is effective in preventing cancer?A: Perhaps the best word to describe the available evidence regarding a preventive link between Vitamin C and cancer is the word "equivocal." There is minimal evidence from population studies to support a role for Vitamin C in preventing cancer. But that may be related to the limitations of available data, because most studies were not designed to evaluate the role of Vitamin C...