http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/05/0...mins/index.html

Has anyone seen this on CNN's website? It warns about certain suppliments(amt and type).

Yes, if you go from taking 0 vitamin C to taking 1000 mg you will most likely experience stomach upset and/or the runs. If you work up to it in increments there is no problems. Calcium at 1500? I have never had any problems but 1000 mg of mine is from the most easily assimilated citrate. Iron? Does anyone even take that anymore? Especially on Atkins?? Dr. Atkins advises that your multi be WITHOUT IRON.

Glad I don't have TV!

Jinx

I notice their mention of the dangers of Vit C.

Linus Pauling, two time Nobel Prize winner (one of them in chemistry) and a researcher in othromolecular medicine with a particular focus on vitamins and especially Vitamin C, would surely dispute that and put their abysmal ignorance to shame. Dr. Pauling came to the conclusion that LARGE doses of Vitamin C were highly recommended and believed that cardiovascular disease could actually be reversed using this method. He himself used 10-18 GRAMS (that's grams NOT milligrams) of Vitamin C per day. A lot of people claim that if you take more than the RDA allowance, it's merely excreted. Dr. Pauling proved that not to be true, using himself as the test subject. He was only able to recover 5 of a 10 Gram dose in excretions, meaning that 5 grams was remaining in his body.

I wonder if it's merely coincidence that after Dr. Pauling's first book on this came out in 1970.. that the rates of cardiovascular death in N America then dropped by 30-40% over the next couple of decades.

Maybe they think that now that Dr. Pauling, a truly outstanding scientist and intellect, is dead, they can get away with promoting their hogwash, and no one will stand up and call them on their bs.