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From: kolling@decwrl.DEC.COM (Karen Kolling)
Newsgroups: net.veg
Subject: Re: vitamin B-12, evil from vitamin pills?????
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Date: Mon, 10-Feb-86 13:55:51 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 10 13:55:51 1986
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>     One final word of warning:  don't get your B-12 from vitamin
> supplements!  These contain breakdown products of B-12 (technic-
> ally referred to as "B-12 analogues") that actually have an anti-
> B-12 effect!

What?  Expand on this, please.  Do you actually mean that taking
this stuff leaves you worse off than before?  (And all these years
I thought one-a-day was protecting my spinal column, or whatever it
is that a B-12 deficiency hits....)