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1953.  Lewiston Morning Tribune (ID) - March 3, 2000 

Vitamin C pills linked with clogging of the arteries  
  SAN DIEGO -- A new study raises the disturbing possibility that taking vitamin C pills may speed up hardening of the arteries. Researchers called their discovery a surprise and cautioned that more experiments are needed to know for sure whether megadoses of the vitamin actually are harmful.Still, they said the finding supports the recommendations of health organizations, which generally urge people to avoid high doses of supplements and to get their nutrients from food instead.Many...

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1953.  Sun Herald, The (Biloxi, MS) - April 7, 1999 

POWER-VEGGIE SPINACH OFFERS VITAMINS, NUTRIENTS  
  Originating in the Middle East, spinach was being grown in Spain during the eighth century, and it was the Spaniards who eventually brought it to the United States.Popeye's addiction to this ''power-packed'' vegetable comes from it being a rich source of iron, folic acid and vitamins A and C. A cup of cooked fresh spinach provides more than the daily requirement for vitamin A and folic acid and contains nearly a day's...

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1953.  St. Paul Pioneer Press (MN) - April 10, 1998 

NEWS ON VITAMIN C WAS A HEART-STOPPER  
  At the breakfast table Thursday morning, I could not find the newspaper. Usually, the paper is neatly arranged next to the coffee, a fresh flower in a vase, a Danish, my reading glasses and a vitamin C tablet, 500 milligrams. The tablet is always centered for me on a small, shallow Waterford crystal saucer.``Excuse me, excuse me, I don't see the newspaper here,'' I said. ``It didn't come today.'' ``Oh, you josh....

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1953.  Akron Beacon Journal (OH) - November 26, 1997 

DO 'C' AND 'E' COUNTERACT FAT? RESEARCHERS SAY HUGE DOSES OF CERTAIN VITAMINS MAY OFFSET FATTY FOODS, BUT MORE STUDY NEEDED  
  It sounds like a recipe for a coronary: Serve Egg McMuffins and Sausage McMuffins for breakfast, with slabs of fried hash browns on the side, to captive research subjects. You can almost feel arteries slamming shut.Yet when huge doses of vitamins C and E were added to the diet, an extraordinary thing happened: The subjects' arteries responded to the high-fat meal as though they'd eaten a low-fat bowl of corn flakes. Researchers caution that the small...

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1953.  The Milwaukee Journal - May 21, 1990 

Vitamins: Do you need more? If your diet is balanced, supplements may waste your money, experts say  
  IF YOU SKIPPED breakfast but dutifully popped a multivitamin this morning, or compensated for your cigaret habit with a little extra vitamin C, count yourself among the more than a third of all Americans who spend some $3 billion each year on vitamins and minerals.Maybe it's just to be sure they get enough of the nutrients they require; maybe to offset the effects of stress, irregular eating habits, smoking or menopause; maybe to ward off the ravages of everything from colds to...

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1953.  The Dallas Morning News - March 14, 1989 

VITAMIN C WON'T KEEP COLDS AWAY  
  Dear Dr. Lamb: I wouldlike a straight, uncomplicated answer regarding vitamin C. Can you prevent colds by taking vitamin C? If so, how much? do you need to take? Is there any possible danger in taking vitamin C? Will vitamin C shorten the duration of a cold? I'm sure a lot of people would like to know. cold?Dear Reader: Vitamin C does not prevent colds or any respiratory infections. These contagious diseases are caused by viruses. There is disagreement on whether vitamin C will...

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1952.  Philadelphia Inquirer, The (PA) - May 29, 2006 

Vitamin C provides boost for iron absorption  
  Question: My doctor recommended that I start taking iron along with Vitamin C because I'm low on iron from heavy periods. Why Vitamin C, too? How does he know if I need that?Answer: You're iron-deficient, not Vitamin C-deficient. But taking Vitamin C with your iron pill will greatly enhance the absorption of iron in your body. Heme iron that comes from beef, pork, poultry and organ meats is fairly easy to absorb. But non-heme iron from eggs, dairy, spinach, dried...

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1952.  Grand Rapids Press, The (MI) - May 15, 2005 

Vitamin C may offset effects of mothers' smoking,  High doses improve lung development, but do not counteract other impacts  
  High doses of vitamin C may have the potential to counteract some of the negative impacts of their mothers' smoking on unborn babies, according to researchers working with monkeys at the Oregon National Primate Research Center. "The findings of this research are highly applicable to humans," said Dr. Eliot Spindel, senior author of the study published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. He is a neuroscientist at the research...

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1952.  Staten Island Advance (NY) - September 26, 2001 

Cooking broccoli in microwave retains more vitamin C  
  Study finds that boiling vegetables results in the greatest destruction of vitamin C "C" is for broccoli -- vitamin C, that is. Vegetables in the cabbage family have a high amount of it. And cooking broccoli in the microwave retains more vitamin C than steaming, boiling or baking, according to a study done at Cornell University in 1993.The study, done by Kristine Scofield and Professor Gertrude Armbruster, found that boiling vegetables resulted in the greatest...