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From: curts@mako.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Vitamin C
Message-ID: <249@mako.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-Aug-84 20:37:13 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug  8 20:37:13 1984
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I recently read a book called "Food for Champions". Although this
book is intended for athletes, it contains an amazing amount of
useful information about how our bodies work. Some of the material
is a little "opinionated", but overall the points are well researched
and supported by references.

The thing that impressed me most about the book was, after claiming
that there was no reason to take vitamins supplements, the authors 
supported their view with a table that showed the symptoms of both
vitamin deficiency and vitamin overdose. In many cases, the symptoms
for deficiency and overdose are the same. What is more, many vitamins
are only assimilated if they are present in a specific ratio to other
vitamins.

As a writer, I'm a little sensitive to plagiarism so I simply 
recommend this book rather than reproduce anything but generalities.

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Curt Stephens 
Engineering Computing Systems
Tektronix, Inc.

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