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Vitamin C: Your Ultimate Health Insurance

... , MSc ChE When tallying the achievements of medical research in the latter part of the 20th century one discovery will stand out - the discovery that vitamin-C is uniquely important to the health and wellbeing of humans. Vitamin C was first isolated in 1928 by the Hungarian biochemist and Nobel prize ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/rvitamin_C.htm 03/27/04, 24853 bytes

Vitamin C and longevity

... , UNITED KINGDOM. A couple of recent test tube experiments widely reported by the popular press have managed to create doubt as to the benefits of vitamin-C. A report just released by researchers at Cambridge University will hopefully lay these doubts to rest. The study measured blood plasma concentrations ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/a113d.htm 03/02/04, 4588 bytes

Vitamin C deficiency in intermittent claudication

... oxidative stress. Medical doctors at the Ghent University Hospital reasoned that patients with intermittent claudication might have low levels of vitamin-C (ascorbic acid), a primary defense against oxidative stress. Their study involved 85 patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD), the cause ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/a114e.htm 03/02/04, 4353 bytes

International Health News Editorial – July 2001

EDITORIAL – JULY 2001 A number of readers have asked me to comment on the recent media hoopla concerning the "cancer causing" properties of vitamin-C reported in the June 15th issue of Science[1]. I have read the article and fail to see what all the commotion is about. The researchers reacted a fairly ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/e115.htm 03/02/04, 5595 bytes

Vitamin C protects against cataracts

... age of 75 years have cataracts that impair their vision. Several studies have shown a protective effect of certain antioxidant vitamins specifically vitamin-C, Vitamin-E and carotenoids. Researchers at Tufts University have just released the results of a large study designed to evaluate the effect of ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/a125f.htm 03/02/04, 4616 bytes

Vitamin C a must for smokers

... the controls, but that the vitamin C infusion corrected the deficiency and brought the CFR in the smokers back to the level of the non-smokers. The vitamin-C infusion had no effect on the CFR of the non-smokers. The researchers conclude that their results support the hypothesis that the damaging effects ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/a107k.htm 03/02/04, 4139 bytes

International Health News Letter to the Editor – June 2003

LETTER TO THE EDITOR – JUNE 2003 I recently read Linus Pauling discovered that taking 3 grams of vitamin-C daily reduced "stress". The information came from a biographical article that did not specify the kind of stress. Is this a meaningful statement? WM, USA Editor: I like Dr. Hans Selye's definition ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/l138c.htm 03/02/04, 3301 bytes

Vitamin C benefits congestive heart failure patients

... patients (26 men and 8 women ages 28 to 76 years) who were randomized to receive 2500 mg of vitamin C by infusion followed by 2000 mg/day of an oral vitamin-C supplement for three days or a placebo. The researchers measured apoptotic membrane microparticles (a marker of apoptosis) in all patients and ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/a125i.htm 03/02/04, 3910 bytes

International Health News Letter to the Editor – September 2003

... of vitamin C for patients who suffer from pregnancy-related anemia? RG, USA Editor: There is some indication that antibiotic therapy may reduce vitamin-C levels, so supplementing may be advisable. Pregnancy anemia involves an iron deficiency. Vitamin C helps in iron absorption and 500 mg with the 3 ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/l140b.htm 03/02/04, 3254 bytes

Vitamin C requirement increases during pregnancy

... , which enclose the fetus and amniotic fluid, rupture too soon, and the waters break, the fetus can be put at risk of premature birth. Because vitamin-C plays an important role in maintaining these membranes, inadequate availability of vitamin C during pregnancy may be a risk factor for PROM. Previous ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/a159e.htm 10/10/05, 4915 bytes