Word: vitamins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...DOES IT Men, it may be time to consider vitamin E. In a study, E supplements reduced the risk of prostate cancer 32% and death from the disease 41%. The dose? Just...
...looking at the relationship between other dietary factors and breast cancer, like vitamin C, vitamin E, beta carotene and types of fat," she said...
...serving of grapes (one and a half cups) has only 90 calories and provides "25 percent of the recommended daily allowance for Vitamin C," said Peracchi-Douglas...
...course, none of us needs grapes at all. Grapes are nearly pure sugar, with far less vitamin C than an orange, and lacking the potassium of a banana or the dietary fiber of an apple. Don't get me wrong, grapes taste great. But there are plenty of other things that taste great that we don't have in the dining halls. (Chocolate bars come to mind.) And if you're such a big fan that you can't wait to make it home for the holidays where (presumably) a juicy bowl of your favorite fruit awaits your arrival...
...medical student at Montpelier, he enjoyed unprecedented success in treating the 1546 charbon, the Black Death. Always the iconoclast, he achieved his results by rejecting traditional treatments such as bleeding and, instead, stressing hygiene and diet, and giving his patients lozenges made of rose petals and other herbs (really, vitamin C). He seems truly to have been ahead of his time...