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From: seifert@hammer.UUCP (Snoopy)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Vitamin C can cause Ulcers (?!)
Message-ID: <1274@hammer.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 20-May-85 01:07:48 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 20 01:07:48 1985
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Summary: 

In article <1586@aecom.UUCP> werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner) writes:

>	Reported quite often in the literature are cases of people on strict
>vegetarian diets taking massive doses of Vitamins, including/especially
>Vitamin C.
>	Partly as a result of malnutrition (lack of protein) and
>  [...] these people have extremely high rates of gastric and duodenal ulcer.

Try again, vegetables contain protein.  Eating about 2 parts grain
to 1 part legume will provide all eight essential amino acids, forming
a complete protein.

What vegetables don't provide is B12.  But the B12 needs of a healthy
body are small, and can be provided by the bacteria in the food,
and/or the bacteria in the intestinal tract.  This may or may not
be enough for a body with a need for greater than normal amount of B12.

>	Of course, complications with Vitamin C are rare compared to some of
>the problems that occur with Vitamin A overdose (skin rashes, cataracts, and
>other nasty things).
>
>				Craig Werner
>				!philabs!aecom!werner
>		What do you expect?  Watermelons are out of season!

	Of course complications with any vitamin are rare compared to
the problems of drugs.  (death is a good example)

				Snoopy
				tektronix!mako!seifert