Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gatech.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gatech!carter From: carter@gatech.UUCP (Carter Bullard) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: Unconventional Cancer Therapy FLAME!! Message-ID: <11971@gatech.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Feb-85 00:16:54 EST Article-I.D.: gatech.11971 Posted: Mon Feb 11 00:16:54 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Feb-85 04:56:58 EST References: <532@tesla.UUCP> <690@wucs.UUCP> <6104@rochester.UUCP> <8013@brl-tgr.ARPA> <575@mako.UUCP> Organization: School of ICS, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Lines: 46 In response to some thing that came onto my terminal: > Laetrile is one of the less common B vitamins. (I forget which one) WRONG!!!!! WRONG!!!!! WRONG!!!!! Laetrile is not a B vitamin. It never has been, it never will be. It is classified as a cyano-polysaccaride, that is a sugar that contains a cyano chemical group. It is basically cyanide conjugated to a very large sugar. B vitamins are not sugars. They never have been and they never will be. I believe that a definition of vitamin is in order. A vitamin is a substance that you must provide in your diet, without which you will die. Not get sick, but die. That is dead, deceased, past-away, stiff, rigormortized, left for the vultures, not going to come back again in this present form, dead. Did your mother warn you about eating enough peach, prune or apricot pits? If it was important, she would have said something and I think that staying alive is one of those things that she would have considered important. > Hard to imagine a B vitamin hurting anyone. (if you get more than > you need, your body dumps the extra) > I won't even bother to argue whether vitamins can hurt you or not. It should be obvious that if you can die of too much water, then you can die from too many vitamins. > Nutritional type therapys are much better, since they work *with* > your body, instead of *against* it, as drugs tend to do. Statements like the one above make me very depressed. It is based on what someone read in a book by somebody who got on a talk show and who happens to know this doctor who's cool and has had an aunt that had this lump on her leg that went away when her microwave oven broke down and swears that running backwards reverses time. The world is in sad shape. -- Carter Bullard ICS, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA 30332 CSNet:Carter @ Gatech ARPA:Carter.Gatech @ CSNet-relay.arpa uucp:...!{akgua,allegra,amd,ihnp4,hplabs,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!carter