Vitamin C does more then treat colds, try it brfore you let someone tell you it's no good, see if it works for you. I would also suggest that you mix an equal portion of MSM, works even better. Blessings Ted
Carol wrote: > Thanks for that confirmation. Linus Pauling made his statements about > vitamin c without doing research. It seems there is much to be said > of a persons belief and the placebo affect that the study pointed out. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 4:31 PM > Subject: CS>Study Indicates that Vitamin C is Not Effective > for Colds > http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/2001/10/01/FFX6WSBQ7SC.html > > Study rebuts 'myth' of vitamin C cold cure > > The Age > 1 OCtober 2001 > By MARY-ANNE TOY > HEALTH EDITOR > Monday 1 October 2001 > > The theory that high doses of vitamin C can cure the common > cold - first > advocated in 1970 by dual Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling - > is a myth, > according to an Australian study. > > The study's leader, Robert Douglas, of the National Centre > for > Epidemiology and Population Health, at the Australian > National > University, said he had stopped taking vitamin C on the > strength of the > finding. > > The study involved 400 volunteers from the ANU in Canberra. > It found that > vitamin C taken at the onset of a cold had no effect on the > duration or > severity of symptoms in healthy adults. > > Professor Douglas said he had conducted his study because > results from > previous ones had been inconclusive. > > "It was pretty clear that vitamin C couldn't prevent people > from getting > colds, but there was still a question mark over whether it > did something > to treat colds," Professor Douglas said. > > "There have been four other studies with ambiguous findings, > but there > was nothing ambiguous about our study." > > But groups such as F H Faulding, the market leader in health > supplements, > and the Centre for Complementary Medicine, said the study > was flawed > because participants did not take strong enough doses for a > long enough > period. > > The 400 volunteers were randomised to receive one of four > interventions - > a "placebo" dose of 0.03 grams a day of vitamin C; one gram > a day; three > grams a day, or three grams a day of the vitamin plus other > additives - > without knowing what dose they were taking. > > Volunteers were given bottles, tablets and a "respiratory > event card" to > fill out if they began to get a cold. If a volunteer had at > least two > symptoms for a minimum of four hours (such as a sore or > scratchy throat, > nasal congestion or discharge, a headache or stinging eyes) > they were to > start the tablets as soon as possible, preferably within > four hours. They > were asked to continue the tablets for the next two days and > record their > symptoms on the card. > > One hundred and forty-nine participants returned records of > 184 cold > episodes. The study, published today in the Medical Journal > of Australia, > found no significant differences in any measure of cold > duration or > severity between the four medication groups. > > The placebo group had the shortest duration of nasal, > systemic and > overall cold symptoms but the difference was not > statistically > significant. > > However, Marc Cohen, director of the Centre for > Complementary Medicine at > Monash University, said the study was seriously flawed. A > therapeutic > dose should be at least five grams a day; participants were > too slow to > take their first dose (average time between onset and first > dose was 13 > hours) and vitamin C was taken for only just over two days. > > Dr Cohen said there were no conclusive studies about whether > vitamin C > helped colds, and it was frustrating that the new study had > such major > flaws. > > Naturopath and pharmacist Lesley Braun, a consultant to > Faulding, said > the study only proved that a particular protocol (1-3 grams > of vitamin C > taken for just over two days) was ineffective. "This is not > to say that > other protocols don't work," Ms Braun said. > > American chemist Linus Pauling, who was twice awarded the > Nobel Prize for > science, sparked the vitamin supplement craze when he > published the book > Vitamin C and the Common Cold in 1970 and Cancer and Vitamin > C in 1979. > > Australians bought $27 million worth of vitamin C last year > from > pharmacies and grocery stores. > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.281 / Virus Database: 149 - Release Date: > 9/18/01 > -- Ted Helping Hand Consulting http://www.helpinghandconsulting.com
