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Shows no support for vitamin C in preventing the common cold in prisoner-volunteers, suggesting a need for further research.
I have read with interest the Nov. 28 news article “Vitamin C Study Rebuts Pauling.”This article describes a study carried out with 21 prisoner‐volunteers by a University of Maryland research team. The first sentence of the article states that this small study yielded no support for the claim that large doses of vitamin C can prevent or relieve the common cold...
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