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From: werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Re: How much Vitamin C?
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Date: Sun, 1-Dec-85 17:40:07 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec  1 17:40:07 1985
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> In article <690@drutx.UUCP> slb@drutx.UUCP (Sue Brezden) writes:
> >Has anyone really measured the Vitamin C used by a human being?
> >
> >If this hasn't been done, why not?
> >                                     Sue Brezden

	It has been done, and the recommendation was to lower the US RDA on
the basis of it. (currently 75mg/day - recommended 40).  The whole thing got
tied up in politics, and no action was taken. For two reasons:
	1. they just upped it from 30 in 1980 (or was it '75)  - the article
was in TIME, check it out.
	2. Too many people are agititating for increasing consumption of 
Vitamin C to megadose levels -- witness this discussion as evidence.
-- 

				Craig Werner
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     "The proper delivery of medical care is to do as much Nothing as possible"