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From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: net.med,net.cooks
Subject: Re: Re: How much Vitamin A is too much? [That's A, not C this time]
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Date: Wed, 15-Jan-86 13:37:18 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 15 13:37:18 1986
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Summary: 

In article <2193@aecom.UUCP> werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner) writes:
>	The myth that "natural" and "synthetic" vitamins differ in anything
>besides concentration and dose is one of the great canards of the 20th Century.
>It is repeated by vitamin salesman, and the well-intentioned misinformed, but
>it just ain't so.

I may be in the misinformed category.  My understanding is  that  "natural"
and  "synthetic"  vitamins  are  chemically  equal.   However,  the  body's
absorption and usage of vitamins depends on the  conditions  they're  taken
under.  Vitamins  in food are accompanied by all kinds of other stuff which
interacts with them and the body to influence their action and  absorption.
Taking  vitamin  pills ("natural" or "synthetic") on an empty stomach isn't
nearly as effective.

My solution:  I buy the cheapest vitamin supplement pills and take them with
	      meals.  What the heck -- can't hurt.

>  "Sometimes you have to run as fast as you can just to stay in the same place."

Been doing that for years ...

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