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From: barb@oliven.UUCP (Barbara Jernigan)
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Subject: Re: vitamin C
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Date: Thu, 12-Dec-85 20:24:29 EST
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> ...if I take megadoses of Vitamin C
> (a gram every hour for 5-6 hours) AFTER I start to feel a cold coming on,
> I can clobber the cold. 

It is possible that *YOU* clobber the cold, not the Vitamin C.  Placebos
*do* work.  But then, I write from a contrary prejudice -- I am allergic
to concentrated Vitamin C (I can drink orange juice -- but not in mega 
amounts).

Barb