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...tempera slogans come out nice and straight. 18 by 15 inch slices of white cardboard, they hang square-cornered around the room, like paintings for sale in the lobby of a tacky movie theater. All red, white, blue, and black, all a little scary. The B-1: A Necessary Vitamin to Ward Off the Red Disease. Win One for the Gipper: Reagan 1980. Help Put the Laffer Curve to Work for Reagan. Big Government is the Enemy Within. Table SALT. And stretched across the front, in big red letters, Remember the Canalamo...
Research done at Minnesota's Mayo Clinic suggests that high dosages of vitamin C do not, as previously suspected, aid advanced cancer patients, the New England Journal of Medicine reported this week...
...findings of the Mayo study conflict with the conclusions of previous research at the Vale of Leven Hospital in Loch Lomondside, Scotland. That study showed that the vitamin helped in at least ten percent of the patients studied, as well as undefined "subjective benefit" in most patients...
...then of Harvard, this thesis also implicates diet, but the villain is protein. Methionine, an amino acid, is broken down by the body into homocysteine, a chemical that promotes atherosclerosis (or the buildup of plaque in the arteries) in lab animals. According to the theory, it is converted by vitamin B6 into an innocuous byproduct, but if there is a deficiency of B6, homocysteine piles up in the blood and causes atherosclerosis. In the view of the theory's proponents, Americans are vulnerable to heart disease because the protective vitamin, which is found in meats, fruits and vegetables...
...will prudently continue to recommend low cholesterol diets, plenty of exercise and no smoking Warns Dr. William Castelli, director of the pioneering Framingham, Mass., heart studies: "If people think they can go out and eat all the hamburgers and hot dogs they want and be safe by taking vitamin B6, they're crazy...