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...more fruits and vegetables containing vitamin C (oranges, broccoli and tomatoes) and beta-carotene, a precursor of vitamin A found in squash, carrots and other yellow and green vegetables. Both substances inhibit the formation of chemically induced cancers in laboratory tests; both are associated with lower cancer rates in human populations. The committee counseled against high-dose vitamin pills because of insufficient evidence about their health benefits. High doses of vitamin A, it added, can be toxic...
...salted peanuts. Thanks in part to the sodium in baking powder and baking soda, baked goods and cereals are the No. 1 source of sodium in the diet of many Americans. Preservatives such as sodium benzoate and sodium nitrite and flavorings like monosodium glutamate (MSG) also contribute. Even vitamin C is often added to foods in the culpable form of sodium ascorbate...
...National Academy of Sciences and biochemist who earned international recognition for his discoveries on the nutritional causes of disease; of cancer; in Boston. Under Handler's direction, the academy sponsored hundreds of studies on drugs, food and the environment. His investigations into the link between pellagra and vitamin B deficiencies helped erase the disease in rural areas of the South...
Perhaps the most popular new folk remedy of modern times is ascorbic acid, a.k.a. vitamin C. Ever since Nobel-Prizewinning Chemist Linus Pauling popularized this remedy in the 1970 book Vitamin C and the Common Cold, many people have become convinced that big doses of ascorbic acid help ward off or ameliorate colds; controlled experiments, however, have failed "to provide proof of the claim. Some folk remedies out of folklore (rub socks with onions, coat body with Vaseline) are hard to consider with a straight face, and a great many others irresistibly bring to mind Robert Benchley's personal...
...precise cause of the strange malady. Samples analyzed so far have contained a number of foreign compounds, among them aniline, azobenzene, and anilide oils. But none of them has previously given rise to the symptoms common to the Spanish epidemic. Similarly, a number of treatments-ranging from megadoses of vitamin E to antibiotics and cortisone-have been tried, but no effective remedy has been found. Researchers were also puzzled by the fact that the disease struck some members of a family and left others unaffected, even though everyone was eating the same food...