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Article: The Case for Ascorbate.(Vitamin C: The Real Story)(Book review)
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- Townsend Letter
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- June 1, 2009
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Vitamin C: The Real Story, by Steve Hickey, PhD, and Andrew W. Saul, PhD
Basic Health Publications, Inc., 28812 Top of the World Drive, Laguna Beach, California 92651; 949-715-7327
www.basichealthpub.com
Paperback; [C]2008; $18.95; 193 pp.
As detailed by authors Steve Hickey, PhD, and Andrew Saul, PhD, the medical history of vitamin C reads like a laundry list of missed opportunities and willful ignorance.
Ever since Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, MD, PhD, first isolated ascorbic acid and identified it as "vitamin" C in the late 1920s, controversy has ensued. By definition, a vitamin is categorized as a micronutrient, an essential ...
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Article: HOW I SURVIVED DEATH RAILWAY; Les Emery knows the real ...
South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales);
June 15, 2009 ;
700+ words
... ... I was ill many, many times. I had dysentery, malnutrition, beriberi [a disorder of the nervous system caused by a vitamin deficiency], malaria and a lot more." Mr Emery, who moved from his Kent home to Bridgend in 1968 when he became a Ministry ...
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