bi50xrs@sdcc3.UUCP (rich) (10/29/85)
In article <1978@aecom.UUCP> werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner) writes: > A study at Syracuse University among 40 healthy young men of the >effects of eggs and Vitamin C showed that ingesting 3 eggs with 2000 mg of >Vitamin C daily significantly raised serum cholesterol, epecially harmful LDL, >ingesting Vitamin C alone or eggs alone produced no significant changes. i'm not related to medicine at all. just that i remember hearing that Vitamin C does not build up in the system. it just fills up the ascorbic acid pool in the body and then drains the rest. so i don't see how the Syracuse study could be valid. in fact,if i may, it seems to me that if a person takes a lot of some vitamin in a pill, all he/she is doing is NOT making his digestive system draw out the nutrients from the food that is eaten. if i were to swallow 3000 mg pill of vitamin C and then drink 2 gallons of orange juice my body would absorb the vitamin C in the pill but not the juice. i think that goes for most other vitamins/minerals. that is why doctors suggest taking those types of pills after dinner rather than before breakfast. phil <i'm no doctor of medicine and don't profess to be> this is just an educated guess.