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From: seifert@ihuxl.UUCP (D.A. Seifert)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Vitamin Deficiencies
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Date: Mon, 12-Dec-83 08:41:11 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 12 08:41:11 1983
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The books I've read say:

(a) No one has ever actually *died* from a vitamin overdose,
	the few cases of people getting sick (usually from
	vitamin A) were cured by merely reducing intake of
	the vitamin.
	
(b) 'dangerous' levels of vitamin A are usually listed as
	50,000-100,000 IU per day *for an extended period
	of time*, or, of course, a truely massive dose will
	do it.  I believe polar bear liver was listed as
	a source of dangerous levels of A. (They should have
	listened to the Eskimos.)
	
Snoopy
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