Re: What to do if you meet a wolf

On 2008-05-12, Andy Leighton <andyl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 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:
>>>
>>>> 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.

Really?  I'm surprised.  Do you have a citation handy?

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Aaron Denney
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