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- From: jsmith@unixg.ubc.ca (JR Smith)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: vitamin and pregnancy questions
- Date: 28 Jan 93 08:52:05 GMT
- Organization: The University of British Columbia
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- Message-ID: <jsmith.728211125@unixg.ubc.ca>
- References: <1993Jan20.014244.11040@beaver.cs.washington.edu> <1993Jan20.031307.1135@spdcc.com> <jsmith.727516237@unixg.ubc.ca> <jsmith.727601209@unixg.ubc.ca> <1k7jtfINN9ht@digex.digex.com>
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- In <1k7jtfINN9ht@digex.digex.com> kfl@access.digex.com (Keith F. Lynch) writes:
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- >In article <jsmith.727601209@unixg.ubc.ca> jsmith@unixg.ubc.ca (JR Smith) writes:
- >> The vitamin C supplementation leading to newborn scurvy was described in
- >> two cases in 1965 in woman who received only 400mg supplement per day.
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- >Sounds bogus to me. Anyone who eats reasonable amounts of fruit and
- >vegetables should be getting at least 400mg of vitamin C already.
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- Sounds bogus to me too but I don't make these things up. Many things done
- or stated in medicine have less evidence to back them up. But on the bright
- side is that some recognize potentially bogus when they see/hear it!
- JR
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