VITAMINS COUNTER FATTY DIET IN STUDY,  HIGH DOSES OF C, E MAY BENEFIT ARTERIES

Smokers need more vitamin C than non-smokers

Vitamin C may suppress artery re-clogging  
  People who take vitamin C after undergoing surgery to open up heart arteries may prevent the arteries from re-clogging.Re-clogging of heart arteries, or restenosis, after the surgery is a significant problem for many people with heart disease, and vitamin C may be a harmless and inexpensive way to prevent this condition, researchers led by Dr. Haruo Tomoda of the department of cardiology at Tokai University in Kanagawa, Japan, reported in the Dec. 1 issue of the Journal of the American...

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1946.  Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA) - April 16, 1996 

RECOMMENDED DOSE OF VITAMIN C TOO LOW  
  Americans should get more than triple the daily amount of vitamin C now recommended, a team of researchers will report today.An extensive study of America's most popular vitamin has found that 200 milligrams is the best dose, compared with the 60 milligrams now contained in most multivitamin supplements. Above 400 milligrams, money spent on the vitamin may literally go down the drain, as most higher doses simply pass through the body unabsorbed.The new research, appearing...

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1946.  Watertown Daily Times (NY) - April 16, 1996 

MORE VITAMIN C IN DIET IS SUGGESTED FOR AMERICANS  
  Americans should get more than triple the daily amount of vitamin C now recommended, a team of researchers reported today.An extensive study of America's most popular vitamin has found that 200 milligrams is the best dose, compared with the 60 milligrams now contained in most multivitamin supplements. Above 400 milligrams, money spent on the vitamin may literally go down the drain, as most higher doses simply pass through the body unabsorbed. The new research, appearing in...

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1946.  Press-Telegram (Long Beach, CA) - October 19, 1994 

VITAMIN C TWICE A DAY MAY KEEP DOCTOR AWAY  
  People who believe that large doses of vitamin C every day can keep the doctor away should think twice. More precisely, they should take two doses a day for maximum effect, according to a new study.Released just in time for flu season, the study found that the largest sensible dosage of vitamin C is 500 milligrams taken by pill every 12 hours. That is the most the human body can handle, according to the report published this week by the gerontology journal Age. That dosage maintains a...

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1946.  Press-Telegram (Long Beach, CA) - October 19, 1994 

VITAMIN C TWICE A DAY MAY KEEP DOCTOR AWAY  
  People who believe that large doses of vitamin C every day can keep the doctor away should think twice. More precisely, they should take two doses a day for maximum effect, according to a new study.Released just in time for flu season, the study found that the largest sensible dosage of vitamin C is 500 milligrams taken by pill every 12 hours. That is the most the human body can handle, according to the report published this week by the gerontology journal Age. That dosage maintains a...

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1946.  Chicago Sun-Times - October 13, 1994 

Here's How Vitamins Really Can - And Can't - Improve Your Health  
  Despite all that's been written about vitamins - or maybe because of it - we get lots of reader mail about them. Lately questions have centered on the cancer-protecting qualities of the increasingly famous antioxidants (beta-carotene, a plant-based precursor of vitamin A, and vitamins C and E).Many people still wonder whether vitamins will give them more energy or prevent colds and whether taking enough vitamins can take the place of a balanced diet. It's not easy...

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1946.  The Tampa Tribune - July 21, 1991 

Smokers need more vitamin C than non-smokers  
  If you smoke, you probably need more vitamin C. That's because smoking depletes so much vitamin C that smokers must consume more than 200 milligrams of the vitamin per day to stay even with non-smokers who get only 60 milligrams. Thus, about 57 percent of non-smokers get enough vitamin C but only 9 percent of smokers do.So concludes Gordon Schectman at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, after comparing the diets and vitamin C blood levels of 11,582 adults. In a...

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1946.  The Cincinnati Post - April 24, 1991 

VITAMIN C INTAKE LINKED TO BLOOD PRESSURE  
  If you want a possible new antidote for high blood pressure, try vitamin C. There's growing evidence high blood pressure may be partly due to a lack of vitamin C, insists British expert Dr. Christopher J. Bulpitt.Writing recently in a medical journal, he cited these observations: Death from stroke, associated with high blood pressure, is highest in regions where people have the lowest intake of vitamin C.Blood pressure is lower in individuals who consume more vitamin...

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1945.  Amarillo Globe-News (TX) - July 22, 2003 

Scientists take heart in finding about vitamin C  
  The old theory about vitamin C, that it helps prevent the common cold, still hasn't proved true. But a new study says it might help prevent something more important: heart disease. A study tracking more than 85,000 nurses over 16 years found that those taking vitamin C supplements had a 28 percent lower risk of getting heart disease. "Mama was right - drink your orange juice," joked Dr. Joel Strom, director of the division of...

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1945.  Houston Chronicle - October 21, 2002 

PUMP UP THE vitamin volume EXPERTS RECOMMEND A DAILY DOSE  
  Who didn't snicker at health-book descriptions of scurvy-stricken sailors, those poor sods with swollen gums and loose teeth from months at sea deprived of vitamin C-rich fruits? Now the laugh's on us. Recent findings have capsized the notion that only sufferers of those classic vitamin deficiency diseases - with memorable names such as scurvy, rickets and beriberi - need to take vitamin supplements. While those diseases are rare in Western societies, evidence 
 

 
 

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