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2053.  The Dallas Morning News - December 8, 1992 

Juice maker for schools settlement in Morales suit Company agrees to change Vitamin C claims  
  AUSTIN -- A major fruit juice maker has agreed to settlement of a lawsuit in which Attorney General Dan Morales accused the firm of "mugging' public school students by selling them falsely labeled Vitamin C juices.Cal-Tex Citrus Juice Inc., the leading supplier of juices to Texas schools, has agreed to pay the $35,000 in costs incurred by the state in investigating the company and also to quit representing all its juices as containing Vitamin C. Under the...

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2053.  Detroit Free Press (MI) - May 8, 1992 

STUDY SUGGESTS VITAMIN C EXTENDS LIFE  
  LOS ANGELES -- Here's one more reason to eat oranges -- you live longer.A new study suggests men who consume a few hundred milligrams of vitamin C every day live about six years longer than men who don't, and the vitamin may extend women's lives by about one year.The U.S. government's recommended daily allowance of vitamin C is 60 milligrams for most adults.The study is the largest and most detailed examination of the effects of...

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2050.  Miami Herald, The (FL) - December 22, 1999 

VITAMIN C MAY BE AN AID TO HEART PATIENTS  
  Heart patients with high blood pressure might 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 as much as 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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2050.  Chicago Sun-Times - July 25, 1999 

Vitamin C may cure fatigue  
  If you're feeling droopy and too tired to exercise, it might not be willpower you need. It could be more vitamin C. A new study measured vitamin C levels in more than 400 mostly healthy people who went to an Arizona HMO clinic for routine checkups. A surprising 30 percent had blood vitamin C levels low enough to be considered depleted.At that level, one of the first symptoms is fatigue, says researcher Carol Johnston of Arizona State University in Tempe. But it's...

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2049.  Plain Dealer, The (Cleveland, OH) - March 24, 1992 

DEBATE OVER VITAMIN C BENEFITS CONTINUES  
  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, human's ancestors simplified themselves...

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2048.  Chicago Sun-Times - April 25, 1991 

Vitamin C may help lower blood pressure  
  If you want a possible new antidote for high blood pressure, try vitamin C. There's growing evidence that high blood pressure may be partly caused by a lack of vitamin C, insists British expert Dr. Christopher J. Bulpitt at the Hammersmith Hospital in London.Writing recently in a medical journal, he cited these observations that led him to that conclusion: Death from stroke, associated with high blood pressure, is highest in regions where people have the lowest intake of...

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2047.  Newsday (Melville, NY) - March 3, 2000 

Concern Over Vitamin C's Role in 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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2047.  Tulsa World - November 8, 1992 

Want Key to Improving Health? Vitamin C Guru May Have Answer  
  Vitamin C adds to the overall health of patients with heart disease, schizophrenia, diabetes or cancer, said twice Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling, who spoke at a nutrition symposium Saturday in Tulsa.Pauling was one of 28 scheduled speakers for the two-day Nutrition in Cancer Treatment Symposium, which concluded Saturday. Nearly 300 people attended the meeting at the Cancer Treatment Centers of America, 8181 S. Lewis Ave. "The American Medical Association says that...

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2047.  Houston Chronicle - MAY 15, 1992 

Still giving vitamin C an A Despite bout with cancer, Pauling defends his mainstay  
  PALO ALTO, Calif. -- For a quarter-century, two-time Nobel laureate Linus Pauling has taken both megadoses of vitamin C to stave off cancer and a lot of flak from skeptics. Time and disease finally caught up with him, he said Wednesday, revealing he was diagnosed with prostate cancer five months ago. But at 91, he says he's recovering."Practically all old men are found to be developing cancer of the prostate sooner or later," Pauling said. "It...
 
 

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