Re: What to do if you meet a wolf

On Mon, 12 May 2008 19:05:25 +0000 (UTC), Aaron Denney <wnoise@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
> On 2008-05-12, Paul Dormer <prd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> In article <CGLVj.133682$Cj7.31553@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, karljohanson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> (Karl Johanson) wrote:
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>>> At Least Vitamin C has some physiological effects, even if not 
>>> the ones the consumers claim it is having. The people shelling 
>>> out good money for tiny bottles of water that someone says they 
>>> shook, are even further down the rabbit hole.
>>
>> Although isn't there a problem with vitamin C overdose, or am I
>> mis-remembering something?
>
> Probably misremembering something.  Vitamin C is water-soluble, so the
> body can eliminate it really, really, fast.  I have heard of "rebound
> scurvy", where the body gets used to eliminating it really fast, so if
> you stop taking as much, you run out.  This doesn't seem very plausible
> to me.

A problem for unborn children if a pregnant woman takes a lot
apparently.  I would think that most adults are better able to
cope with a sudden mass intake.

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