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Article: The nature of vitamin C: the position of the Vitamin C Foundation on natural vitamin C and so-called vitamin C-complex.
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- Townsend Letter: The Examiner of Alternative Medicine
- Article date:
- December 1, 2007
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There are a surprising number of well-intentioned people among the alternative medical community who now believe that ascorbic acid isn't the real vitamin C. The dietary substance that causes scurvy when missing and cures scurvy when present is by definition vitamin C. Linus Pauling was unequivocal in his belief that the ascorbate fraction of ascorbic acid (called the ascorbate ion) is vitamin C. Referring to scurvy in his landmark Vitamin C and the Common Cold (1970), Pauling stated, "Ascorbic acid is an essential food for human beings. People who receive no ascorbic acid (vitamin C) become sick and die."
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