Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site sdcc3.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!ittatc!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcc3!bi50xrs From: bi50xrs@sdcc3.UUCP (rich) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: Vitamin C megadose not harmful? Message-ID: <3057@sdcc3.UUCP> Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 23:54:24 EST Article-I.D.: sdcc3.3057 Posted: Mon Oct 28 23:54:24 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 29-Oct-85 14:42:44 EST References: <1978@aecom.UUCP> Reply-To: bi50xrs@sdcc3.UUCP (rich) Distribution: na Organization: lack of Lines: 23 In article <1978@aecom.UUCP> werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner) writes: > A study at Syracuse University among 40 healthy young men of the >effects of eggs and Vitamin C showed that ingesting 3 eggs with 2000 mg of >Vitamin C daily significantly raised serum cholesterol, epecially harmful LDL, >ingesting Vitamin C alone or eggs alone produced no significant changes. i'm not related to medicine at all. just that i remember hearing that Vitamin C does not build up in the system. it just fills up the ascorbic acid pool in the body and then drains the rest. so i don't see how the Syracuse study could be valid. in fact,if i may, it seems to me that if a person takes a lot of some vitamin in a pill, all he/she is doing is NOT making his digestive system draw out the nutrients from the food that is eaten. if i were to swallow 3000 mg pill of vitamin C and then drink 2 gallons of orange juice my body would absorb the vitamin C in the pill but not the juice. i think that goes for most other vitamins/minerals. that is why doctors suggest taking those types of pills after dinner rather than before breakfast. phil this is just an educated guess.