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Vitamin C Foundation Releases Its List of the Top Ten Websites that Disseminate Misinformation about Vitamin C

Vitamin C Foundation Releases Its List of the Top Ten Websites that
Disseminate Misinformation about Vitamin C
Published on 8/9/2004
by Healthy News Service Link to full article below

HOUSTON, TX- The Vitamin C Foundation released a list of the Top Ten
Websites That Disseminate Misinformation About Vitamin C today. Topping
the list are websites hosted by prestigous organizations such as the
National Library of Medicine's "Medline Plus," the National Institutes of
Health, the Mayo Clinic, Quackwatch, Consumerlab.com, WebMD and the Merck
Manual.
The most often published misinformation about vitamin C is that mega-doses
of this vitamin are washed away in the urine and produce nothing more than
expensive urine. A recent study published by National Institutes of Health
researchers dispels this belief. High oral doses of vitamin C have now
been demonstrated to produce three times higher concentation in the blood
plasma than previously thought possible. [Annals Internal Medicine 2004
Apr 6;140(7):533-7] Since 1996 the National Institutes of Health and the
Institutes of Medicine have published spurious information that blood
plasma saturation for vitamin C is achieved with a 200 milligram of oral
dose and additional amounts are worthless.

To read the full article:
http://healthy.net/scr/news.asp?Id=9670

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