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  3. From: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
  4. Newsgroups: misc.health.alternative,sci.med
  5. Subject: Re: Orthomolecular Approaches to Medicine
  6. Message-ID: <BzxJsI.I6G@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
  7. Date: 27 Dec 92 18:09:54 GMT
  8. References: <1h84lqINNbuq@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> <PHR.92Dec22192040@napa.telebit.com> <1992Dec26.100207.13492@dircon.co.uk>
  9. Sender: news@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (USENET News)
  10. Organization: Purdue University Statistics Department
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  13. In article <1992Dec26.100207.13492@dircon.co.uk> uad1214@dircon.co.uk (Peter Cox) writes:
  14.  
  15.             ......................
  16.  
  17. >Vitamins are, of course, vital for a healthy body, but
  18. >Pauling maintains that the amounts necessary for
  19. >disease-free robust good health are much larger than the
  20. >officially-recommended daily allowances - often so much
  21. >larger than they cannot be reasonably obtained from the
  22. >present-day diet.
  23.  
  24. This may very well be correct.  Nature keeps experimenting until
  25. something works, but very definitely not at an what we would 
  26. call an optimal level.  It is doubtful that the "natural"situation
  27. would be a relatively disease-free robust good health for more 
  28. than a very few; look at the ecological considerations.  But, as
  29. has been rightly pointed out, man has no prededators except disease
  30. and man.
  31. -- 
  32. Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
  33. Phone: (317)494-6054
  34. hrubin@snap.stat.purdue.edu (Internet, bitnet)  
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