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Vitamins – Vitamin C

Posted in Vitamins on Jun 1st, 2008

Vitamin C Vitamin C has been in the public eye for a long time. Even before its discovery in 1932, nutrition experts recognized that something in citrus fruits could prevent scurvy, a disease that killed as many as two million sailors between 1500 and 1800. In the 1970s, Chemistry and Peace Nobel laureate Linus Pauling [...]

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Vitamins – Three of the Bs: Folate, Vitamin B6, and Vitamin B12

Posted in Vitamins on Jun 1st, 2008

Three of the Bs: Folate, Vitamin B6, and Vitamin B12 One of the advances that changed the way we look at vitamins was the discovery that too little folate, one of the eight B vitamins, is linked to birth defects such as spina bifida and anencephaly. Fifty years ago, no one knew what caused these [...]

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