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From: bi50xrs@sdcc3.UUCP (rich)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Vitamin C megadose not harmful?
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Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 23:54:24 EST
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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.