Vitamin C Provides More Health Benefits
A good way to reduce your risk of heart attack and stroke is
to eat more vitamin-C-packed fruits and vegetables. That's the finding
from two new British studies.In one study of 96 men and women, ages 65
and 74, researchers at the University of Cambridge found that consumers
of an extra 60 milligrams of vitamin C daily (the amount in one orange)
had lower concentrations of fibrinogen, a blood-clotting factor. High fibrinogen
promotes blood clots and is a good predictor of future...
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1947. Seattle Post-Intelligencer - January 26, 1994
PANEL GIVES VITAMIN C A TOP GRADE
Are you less likely to develop cancer if you get lots of vitamin
C? Probably.That's the opinion of a panel of experts recently convened
by the Food and Drug Administration to study the question. When asked how
they would rate vitamin C's potential for reducing the risk of cancer on
a scale of 1 to 10, six of the experts averaged an 8. One panelist disagreed,
calling the chances of a vitamin-C anticancer connection zero. Indisputably,
people who eat more vitamin...
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1947. St. Louis Post-Dispatch - February 26, 1990
VITAMIN C MAY HELP EASE COLD SYMPTOMS
Q: Does vitamin C really work for colds? Yesterday I saw my
doctor, hoping he could prescribe an antibiotic for the awful cold I've
got. He said that I needed vitamin C, rest and fluids instead of any medicine
he could prescribe. When I asked him how much vitamin C, he suggested around
one or two grams. My pharmacist said vitamin C was worthless and recommended
Alka-Seltzer Plus Cold Tablets. Who should I believe?A......Your doctor
was right not to prescribe an antibiotic...
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1947. Charlotte Observer, The (NC) - October 18, 1986
VITAMIN C MAY PROTECT LIVER FROM ALCOHOL
Daily doses of vitamin C might help protect some alcohol users
from the liver damage that years of drinking can cause, a researcher has
said.Research in guinea pigs found that vitamin C helped them resist fat
buildups in their livers that can lead to cirrhosis, said Vincent Zannoni,
professor of pharmacology and toxicology at the University of Michigan
Medical School.An experiment in humans suggests the same effect might be
at work. The results suggest that...
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1947. Philadelphia Inquirer, The (PA) - September 11, 1986
SCIENTIST DISPUTES USE OF VITAMIN C TO PREVENT COLDS
An Australian researcher said yesterday that Vitamin C appeared
to have ''no worthwhile" value for preventing the common cold and might
have only ''a small therapeutic" effect for treating sniffles, sneezes
and other symptoms.A. Stewart Truswell of the University of Sydney, reporting
in a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine, reviewed 27 studies
in the medical literature on the value of Vitamin C in preventing...
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1946. News-Press, The (Fort Myers, FL) - August 6, 2005
Vitamins, nutrients can help bolster body's natural defenses,
Vitamin C, Green tea and others can help immunity
Vitamin C, Green tea and others can help immunity Every year
viruses, such as flu and the common cold, spread so quickly that it is
difficult for anyone to avoid them. However, each year new techniques and
solutions arise to prevent or minimize the severity of the illnesses brought
on by these nasty germs.A number of natural food sources as well as vitamins
and minerals have helped me through each cold and flu season.Vitamin C
has many clinical uses. One particular usage is its...
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1946. Lexington Herald-Leader (KY) - April 11, 2000
NEW RDAS SET FOR VITAMINS C, 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 yesterday.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.
However, the institute also called for increasing the recommended daily
dosages of vitamins C and E. The...
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1946. The Kansas City Star - August 24, 1999
Vitamin touted to bust stress Researcher says vitamin C also boosts
antibody
Megadoses of vitamin C reduced the effects of stress in rats
and apparently can help boost the production of an illness-fighting antibody,
a researcher says. In light of the findings, health agencies should consider
increasing the recommended dose of the vitamin in humans, said P. Samuel
Campbell, chairman of the biological sciences department at the University
of Alabama at Huntsville. That dose is now based on the amount needed to
prevent scurvy and anemia.His speech Sunday to the...
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1946. The Knoxville News-Sentinel - May 11, 1998
Scurvy not necessarily disease of past when vitamin C consumption so
low
Yesterday's news brought a report from a university in the Western
United States that a significant number of students were found to have
critically low levels of vitamin C or ascorbic acid. Blood tests from the
affected students show levels of vitamin C that are dangerously low, simply
because of inadequate dietary intake of the vitamin. Such extreme deficiency
of vitamin C results in a condition known as scurvy.This is a term that
most of us have studied in health classes in...
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1946. Deseret News, The (Salt Lake City, UT) - December 11, 1997
Vitamin C not guaranteed to prevent common cold
Question: I have read several different articles about the effect
of vitamin C for preventing colds. I also heard that people who stress
their bodies with exercise tend to get more colds in the winter. Would
you address these issues in your column? Thank you. Answer: The role of
vitamin C in preventing colds is really a controversial issue. I would
guess that about half of the studies show that it is effective and the
other half show that it is not. However, there is a fairly large body of...
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