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Article: Vitamin C earns an "A" for health benefits; do you get enough?
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- Environmental Nutrition
- Article date:
- June 1, 1998
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Recent headlines announcing that moderately high doses of vitamin C--500 milligrams--might be dangerous stunned the many Americans who routinely take high-dose C supplements. The British study behind the headlines has since come under attack by researchers who believe it was seriously flawed. Whether it is necessary to take that much vitamin C is another question altogether. What isn't disputed is the plethora of scientific evidence upholding C's claim to nutritional stardom.
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