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From: jmg@houxk.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Vitamin B-6 Danger
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Date: Mon, 29-Aug-83 10:29:25 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 29 10:29:25 1983
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	Right on Jan Wolitzky! I've had enough of these pseudo-scientific
quacks and rascals. I suggest we pick out some of the bigger ones and make
an example of them so the rest will fall in line. I have two in mind
specifically. One was a known drunk and a lecher who constantly brawled and
held continuous drinking parties. This guy even lost his nose in one of
these brawls (it was apparently bitten off!) and thereafter he wore a false
nose made of silver to hide his ugly deformity. The other rascal was dragged
up in a home where his mother practiced witchcraft and several times he had
to go and get his mother out of jail after she was arrested by the authorities
for practicing witchcraft. To top it all off these two pseudo-scientific quacks
got together and worked for years on some half-baked scheme about astronomy.
But old silver nose would never let the other guy in on all his secrets and
the son-of-a-witch had to wait until old silvernose died to complete this
scheme. So then he came out with this cockeyed theory that the planets travel
in elliptical orbits. Lets dig these two up and give them a fair trial for
scientific heresy. Old silvernose goes by the name of Tyco Brahe and the
son-of-a-witch calls himself Johannes Kepler.
	Another thing that bothers me is that the reason why we get all these
crackpot articles on the net is that the people who really know what they're
talking about, like you Jan, seldom submit articles. So lets hear it from you
guys!
	But seriously Jan, most people who know anything about vitamins have
known for years that you can't take any one of the B vitamins by itself
because it causes a depletion of other B vitamins in your system. You must
take B vitamins in a balanced group called vitamin B complex. Here's another
item for your trivia bag. Taking large quatities of vitamin E causes a
depletion of vitamin A in the system, so you really must take vitamin E and A
together. Vitamin E also causes a slight temporary rise in blood pressure
after it is taken. Hope to hear more of your contibutions soon Jan.

						Joe McGhee