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2069.  Daily News of Los Angeles (CA) - January 29, 1996 

FUEL,  NUTRITION & DIETS EXTRA VITAMIN C MAY BENEFIT DIABETICS, RESEARCH INDICATES  
  Vitamin C improves blood circulation in diabetics, raising the possibility that the antioxidant may lower the risk of heart attack, stroke and other circulatory problems caused by diabetes, according to a new study.But don't start gobbling vitamins just yet. Because researchers in the new study used injected, relatively high doses of the vitamin, it is unclear whether using lower doses, or taking vitamin supplements, would have the same effect, they said. In the study, 10...

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2068.  Miami Herald, The (FL) - March 28, 2000 

VITAMIN C, CANCER TREATMENT MAY NOT MIX  
  Cancer patients who take large doses of vitamin C hoping for a cure might make their disease worse by inadvertently protecting their tumors from radiation and chemotherapy, new research suggests.Doctors caution that 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 protect the...

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2068.  Newsday (Melville, NY) - April 28, 1998 

HEALTH MATTERS / Your Questions, Your Concerns . . .and Common Sense Advice / PERSONAL HEALTH / To C or Not to C? The Latest Vitamin Study Is in Dispute  
  WE RECEIVED an e-mail recently from a reader who was angered after we ran a story about a report that found that 500 milligrams a day of vitamin C given over six weeks appeared to harm a specific link in the DNA molecule. "I feel the media isn't doing its job," he wrote. "After reading how 500 mg. or less can alter one's DNA, my wife and I stopped using our multivitamin, which contained 500 mg. of C . . . Is anybody disputing these...

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2068.  Charlotte Observer, The (NC) - January 25, 1993 

VITAMIN C: COLD PREVENTATIVE, CURE-ALL OR DANGEROUS?  
  It`s as much a staple of many medicine chests as aspirin. Getting the sniffles? Pop a vitamin C tablet. Feeling run-down? Get out the C.Vitamin C is the biggest-selling single-element vitamin in America. Its sales made up more than 10 percent of the burgeoning $3.5 billion vitamin, mineral and supplement industry last year.But there`s remarkably little agreement among authorities on whether taking extra C does all that much good - or does any good. Though proponents say...

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2067.  Morning Call, The (Allentown, PA) - October 29, 1999 

VITAMIN C SUPPLEMENTS DANCE GROOVES WITH VARIED POP STYLES  
  It's been more than a decade since dance-pop performer Vitamin C was in the Allentown area. Back then, she was known as Colleen Fitzpatrick and she was playing Ricki Lake's arch-rival, Amber von Tussle, in the 1988 John Waters film `Hairspray,` a portion of which was filmed at Dorney Park.At the end of filming one day, Fitzpatrick and her movie parents, Debbie Harry, Sonny Bono, and Bono's wife, Mary `went looking for an unusual place to eat.` recalls...

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2067.  Akron Beacon Journal (OH) - May 8, 1992 

VITAMIN C ADDS YEARS, REPORT SAYS 300 TO 400 MILLIGRAMS DAILY MAY HELP MEN LIVE UP TO SIX YEARS LONGER  
  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...

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2066.  San Jose Mercury News (CA) - April 11, 2000 

LIMITS SET ON VITAMINS C AND E HEALTH INSTITUTE ACTS TO PREVENT RISK OF OVERUSE  
  You can get too much of some good things, including vitamins C and E, the federal government's watchdog for nutritional standards said Monday.For the first time, the Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academy of Sciences, set limits on daily consumption of vitamins C and E in an effort 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 Institute of...

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2066.  Newsday (Melville, NY) - April 23, 1996 

Reaching for a Higher C / NIH says recommended intake of the vitamin is too low  
  THE recommended daily intake for vitamin C may be set too low for optimal health, according to a National Institutes of Health study released this week. Reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researcher Mark Levine and his colleagues found that 200 milligrams a day of vitamin C appears to be the ideal daily maximum amount for healthy men in their 20s. That is more than three times higher than the 60 milligrams per day now advised by the National Research Council,...

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2065.  Daily News of Los Angeles (CA) - July 15, 1996 

SMOKERS MAY BENEFIT FROM USE OF VITAMIN C  
  Vitamin C may help repair some of the damage that cigarette smoking causes in the body, according to a new report. In the study, administration of liquid vitamin C directly into the arteries of smokers improved blood flow, according to researchers from the University of Freiburg in Germany.Smoking can cause damage that reduces blood flow through arteries and leads to heart disease. Smoking is a major risk factor for both heart attack and stroke, according to the American Heart...
 
 

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