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1957.  Chicago Sun-Times - August 25, 1994 

Vitamin C Helps Your Heart: Study  
  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.That's the conclusion of a new study by Judith Hallfrisch at the U.S. of Agriculture Department'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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1957.  The Buffalo News - August 9, 1994 

VITAMIN C FOR THE HEART  
  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 at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Human Nutrition Research Center. Dr. Hallfrisch measured the amount of vitamin C in 827 adults. Regardless of their age, sex, weight or smoking habits, those with the highest levels...

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1957.  Seattle Post-Intelligencer - May 19, 1993 

STUDIES FIND VITAMIN C AND BLOOD PRESSURE LINK  
  For a safe, cheap agent to help prevent high blood pressure, consider vitamin C. ``It seems to have unique pharmacological activity,'' says Elaine B. Feldman, M.D., of the Medical College of Georgia.In one study, she and colleagues found the lowest blood pressure in subjects with the highest blood levels of vitamin C. The vitamin came almost entirely from foods, not supplements. Those with the most blood vitamin C averaged blood pressure of 108/69 compared with...

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1957.  The Denver Post - March 4, 1991 

Keep an open mind about vitamin C  
  Linus Pauling - the two-time Nobel Prize laureate who has long advocated the theory that large doses of vitamin C can help prevent cancer and other illnesses - turned 90 last week, amid ongoing debate over his claims. His work with chemical bonds, which won him his first Nobel in 1954, is still heralded, but the medical community continues to argue whether his ideas on vitamin C should be respected or lumped into the category of quackery.A majority of scientists disagree with his claims...

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1957.  Seattle Post-Intelligencer - April 18, 1990 

VITAMINS C AND E MAY FIGHT HEART DISEASE  
  Some astounding new research shows that vitamins C and E may save you from heart disease.In fact, those vitamins even promise to reverse the awful damage to arteries brought on by a high-fat diet, according to Dr. Anthony Verlangieri, professor of pharmacology at University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy. For six years, Verlangieri observed the effects of doses of vitamins C and E on monkeys fed lard and cholesterol to give them heart disease. He found that vitamin E or vitamin C slowed...

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1956.  World, The (Coos Bay, OR) - February 20, 2006 

Study suggests vitamin C can reduce vitamin E loss in smokers  
  CORVALLIS (AP) - Vitamin C supplements can stop most of the vitamin E loss that occurs in smokers, showing how vitamins act together to protect the body, according to a new study. Vitamin E is one of the first lines of defense against cigarette smoke in lung tissue, said Maret Traber, an Oregon State University nutrition professor and a researcher at its Linus Pauling Institute.Smoke creates free radicals - rogue oxygen molecules - that destroy cells and...

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1956.  Seattle Times, The (WA) - April 2, 2003 

Vitamins may speed trauma recovery,  Harborview patients given doses of C and E have less organ damage  
  Supplements of vitamins C and E may help speed the recovery of trauma patients, according to a recent study at Harborview Medical Center. Critically ill patients who received the vitamins were less likely to suffer from organ failure, and spent less time on a ventilator and less time in the intensive-care unit than those who were not, reported Harborview Surgeon-in-Chief Dr. Ronald Maier in a recent issue of Annals of Surgery. Convinced of the supplements' value after...

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1956.  Tulsa World - June 28, 2001 

Effects of vitamin C still causing a healthy debate  
  Many of the 40 million to 50 million Americans who take vitamin C tablets swallowed hard last week upon hearing the news that chemists had found a link between high doses of the supplements and the kind of DNA damage associated with cancer. But researchers who study the vitamin's effect on health new findings did not imply that vitamin C supplements cause cancer. "This was an experiment done in the lab, not in any biological context," said Jeffrey...

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1956.  Vero Beach Press Journal (FL) - October 6, 2000 

STUDY: VITAMIN C MAY LOWER STROKE RISK  
  People with high blood levels of vitamin C have significantly reduced risk of stroke, according to a long-term study reported Thursday. The 20-year study involving more than 2,000 men and women in rural Japan, found that those with the lowest levels of vitamin C in their blood had a 70 percent higher risk of stroke than those with the highest levels of the vitamin."To my knowledge, this is the first prospective study to make the correlation between vitamin C in the bloodstream...