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From: emjej@uokvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: How much Vitamin C is too much?
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Date: Tue, 21-Jan-86 15:26:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 21 15:26:00 1986
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Nf-From: uokvax.UUCP!emjej    Jan 21 14:26:00 1986


The book *Chemicals We Eat* has, near its beginning, an interesting story
about the crew of a fishing boat who suffered severe hypervitaminosis A from
one evening's meal of a VERY large fish they had caught.  I doubt seriously
that anyone had injected it with "artificial" vitamin A.  I can't recall the
symptoms too accurately, but there was mention of effects on the fishermen's
skin.  (Understatement, fer shur; could someone with more info post the
symptoms involved?)

Said book is very much worth reading, by the way.  Did you know that potato
skins and peanuts are carcinogenic?

				"Socrates drank organically-grown hemlock"
				James Jones