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1959.  The Gazette (Cedar Rapids-Iowa City) - April 17, 2000 

Warning: You can get too much of vitamins C and E  
  WASHINGTON - You can get too much of some good things, including vitamins C and E, the federal government's watchdog for nutritional standards said last week. 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 IOM...

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1959.  The Cincinnati Post - December 21, 1999 

Vitamin C may fight hypertension  
  Heart patients with high blood pressure may receive substantial benefit from a daily dose of vitamin C - something researchers said could be an inexpensive alternative to prescription drugs. A dose of 500 milligrams each day lowered blood pressure by up to 9 percent, a level comparable to expensive prescription drugs, according to researchers from the Boston University School of Medicine and the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University. "It may provide a way to bring their...

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1959.  Austin American-Statesman (TX) - July 8, 1997 

Vitamin C breakthrough may prevent wrinkles  
  It's a nutrient credited with everything from curing the common cold to preventing heart disease and even cancer, and now it also may be the ticket to looking eternally young. It's Vitamin C, which some say is the hottest topical anti-aging ingredient ever. ``The science is really there. This is not just another cosmetic company hype,'' says New York City dermatologist Dr. Deborah Jaliman.When used in the proper form (L-ascorbic acid) and in...

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1959.  Seattle Post-Intelligencer - August 10, 1994 

HIGH VITAMIN C LEVELS BOOST PRODUCTION OF GOOD CHOLESTEROL  
  If you have lots of vitamin C in your blood, your chances of heart disease sink. That's because high vitamin C equals high HDL cholesterol, the good type that seems to combat heart disease.Such is the conclusion of a new study by Judith Hallfrisch, Ph.D., at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Human Nutrition Research Center in Beltsville, Md. Hallfrisch measured the amount of vitamin C in 827 adults. Regardless of their age, sex, weight or smoking habits, those...

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1959.  Plain Dealer, The (Cleveland, OH) - June 1, 1993 

VITAMIN E NEUTRALIZES HARMFUL CHOLESTEROL  
  High doses of vitamin E lower the risks of heart disease by helping neutralize the "bad" kind of cholesterol, but vitamin C has no such effect, researchers reported Saturday.University of Minnesota scientists said a study of patients taking supplements of vitamin E and vitamin C showed that only E was able to keep low-density lipoproteins (LDL), the "bad" cholesterol, from turning into a killer chemical that attacks arteries. Dr. Jozsef...

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1959.  Scripps Howard News Service - March 19, 1992 

GOVERNMENT SHOULD DO MORE RESEARCH ON VITAMIN C  
  Horses do it. So do pigs, cows, goats, rats, chickens, your pet dog, and even frogs and snakes.Humans are oddballs among most other animals on earth. We rank with monkeys, Indian fruit-eating bats, and a few other creatures that have lost the ability to synthesize their own supply of vitamin C. The overwhelming majority of other animals make vitamin C -- ascorbic acid -- in their liver or kidney cells.Hundreds of millions of years ago, man's ancestors simplified themselves...

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1959.  Lexington Herald-Leader (KY) - December 15, 1991 

STUDY: LOW VITAMIN C CAN DAMAGE SPERM  
  WASHINGTON -- Men with low levels of vitamin C are more likely 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 at Berkeley said that 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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1959.  The Kansas City Star - December 15, 1991 

Study links vitamin C, sperm flaws Men with low levels of ascorbic acid have more defective sex cells.  
  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 that 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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1959.  Oregonian, The (Portland, OR) - November 14, 1990 

VITAMIN C CAN BE OF HELP TO HUNTERS WHO HAVE PUSHED THEIR BODIES TOO FAR  
  Linus Pauling probably is too old to chukar hunt, but praise for Oregon State University's stellar alumni-emeritus and Nobel prize-winner are being sung into the winds of desert canyons.Vitamin C, it seems, is more important to some chukar hunters than to those who use it to ward off colds. An article in Outdoor Life reports ``Every hunter has pushed himself to the point where his muscles are screaming, `no more!' But there is a solution to the aches, pains, and...