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From: werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner)
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Subject: Re: Re: Vitamin C can cause Ulcers (?!)
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Date: Thu, 23-May-85 00:57:26 EDT
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In response to seifert@mako and two panicky letters.

	There is nothing in and of itself wrong with vegetarianism. If done
right, it will not result in malnutrition.  My point was that some people do
not do it right, and they are the ones that end up in the clinic waiting to
see the doctor.
	The same is true of Vitamin C and A complications.  Vitamins, just 
like drugs, are not benign, and can be abused, albeitly not as often (for
one - there are few of them, and two, the body has a wide range of tolerance,
unlike that for many drugs.)

	My apologies. I used a deliberately combative prose on the series of
three articles.  The point remains however, there are no easy answers.

-- 
				Craig Werner
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		What do you expect?  Watermelons are out of season!