From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat Jun 16 2001 - 01:26:49 MDT
At 01:07 PM 6/16/01 +1000, I wrote:
>cancers caused (or so it's claimed in a news report
>based on an in vitro study) by mega-doses of Vitamin C
Here's a pointer if you haven't seen it elsewhere by now:
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This just in from Associated Press and also NBC Nightly News with Tom
Brokaw...
Study: Vitamin C Pills May Damage DNA
June 14, 2001; Washington, D.C. (AP) -- Vitamin C pills, popped by millions
as a protection against colds and other diseases, actually may play a role
in damaging DNA, a step toward forming cancer cells, a laboratory study
suggests. In a test tube experiment analyzing the action of Vitamin C,
University of Pennsylvania researchers found that the nutrient can act as a
catalyst to help make a toxin that wounds DNA, the body's genetic code. The
study appears Friday in the journal Science.
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Damien Broderick
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