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2045.  Washington Post - August 2, 1994 

VITAMIN C FROM FOOD MAY HELP YOUR HEART  
  Nearly everyone can recite the standard recommendations to reduce the risk of heart disease: Eat a low-fat, low-cholesterol diet; exercise regularly; limit use of the salt shaker; don't smoke. Now, there's growing evidence to suggest a new addition to the list: consume enough vitamin C According to results from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging, those who have a high vitamin C intake also have increased blood levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL), the...

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2044.  Spokesman-Review, The (Spokane, WA) - June 29, 2000 

GOING FOURTH NO LONGER SCREAMING IN THE POP-PUNK BAND EVE'S PLUMB, VITAMIN C HEADLINES THE SPOKANE AMERICAN MUSIC FESTIVAL  
  Just a few years ago, the woman now known as Vitamin C was called Colleen Fitzpatrick. She played the guitar and screamed in the pop-punk band Eve's Plum.She's not screaming anymore. With her self-titled debut, Vitamin C has produced one of the poppiest albums in years.She begs listeners to "put a smile on your face/make the world a better place" in "Smile." And in "Graduation (Friends...

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2043.  The Tampa Tribune - July 1, 1996 

Study says vitamin C injections help heal smokers' blood vessels  
  DALLAS -- Injections of vitamin C given to smokers reverse one of the most harmful cardiovascular effects of smoking, according to a study being published today. However, more research is needed to determine whether vitamin C pills might help reduce heart disease associated with cigarettes, said the authors of the study, published in the American Heart Association journal Circulation.The vitamin works because of its antioxidant function, said Thomas Munzel of the University of Freiburg in...

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2041.  Mobile Register (AL) - June 29, 2001 

Effects of vitamin C still cause healthy debate  
  Effects of vitamin C still cause healthy debate By BENEDICT CAREY Los Angeles Times 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 were quick to say that the new findings did not imply that vitamin C supplements cause cancer....

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2041.  Lincoln Journal Star (NE) - February 9, 2001 

Vitamin C's latest is no hard pill to swallow  
  Vitamin C "More" 4 stars Vitamin C had the country's prom theme song last year with "Graduation (Friends Forever)," one of three hits from her superb debut album.And now her "More" delivers just what the title promises.More sweet than sultry, Vitamin C manages to pull off the seductive star moves required of the teen pop genre. "Where's the Party," for example,...

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2039.  Staten Island Advance (NY) - February 2, 2001 

Singer Vitamin C gets healthy career boost She has just released her second CD  
  Vitamin C can build up your immune system, as well as your CD collection.Obviously, we're talking about the performer, not the pill.It used to be that singers dropped their last name. Now they assume the names of vitamins. Go figure.In a little more than a year, the attractive Vitamin C (out of the mold of Vitamin A as in Aguilera and B as in Britney) has garnered strong sales due to her self titled platinum-plus album.Now, the pop dynamo returns with...

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2039.  Washington Post - July 30, 1991 

RESEARCHERS ARE TAKING A FRESH LOOK AT VITAMIN C  
  For the past two decades, Linus Pauling has promoted vitamin C for a range of ills and has usually received a chilly reception in the medical community. While few believe that vitamin C is a magic bullet against disease, researchers now are exploring new clues that may validate some of Pauling's claims."Because his claims are so strong, people found them hard to believe and tended to dismiss them," says Gladys Block, an epidemiologist formerly with the...

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2038.  Newsday (Melville, NY) - May 20, 2003 

Gene Tinkering Gives Plants a Vitamin Boost  
  Through genetic tinkering, scientists find they can dramatically boost the amount of vitamin C in the leaves and seeds of crop plants. By taking a special gene from wheat plants and inserting it into tobacco and corn plants, Daniel Gallie and four colleagues at the University of California, Riverside, doubled and quadrupled the amounts of vitamin C found in their engineered plants.The research could be significant since humans are unable to make vitamin C and meet their need for it through...

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2038.  Chicago Sun-Times - June 15, 2001 

Vitamin C won't fight cancer: study  
  Evidence that vitamin C may do as much harm as good will be published today, reinforcing the view that taking supplements comes a poor second to eating a balanced diet. Vitamin C, known to be a DNA-protecting "antioxidant," also can induce the production of DNA-damaging compounds that are linked to cancer, suggests a study in the journal Science. Dr. Ian Blair of the University of Pennsylvania cautioned that the study should not be interpreted as a claim...
 
 
 

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