DO YOU KNOW YOUR VITAMIN ABCs?"Taking Too Much Vitamin C vitamin C or ascorbic acid Water-soluble organic compound important in animal metabolism. Most animals produce it in their bodies, but humans, other primates, and guinea pigs need it in the diet to prevent scurvy. Can Be Dangerous, Study Finds," said the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times in April 1998 "Researchers: Boost Vitamin C Allowance," said Newsday a year later. * Hardly a day goes by without some newsflash about the latest research on vitamin you-name-it or the mineral-of-the-month. Still other reports announce that herbs, phytochemicals, or other components of food may ward off everything from headaches to heart attacks to cellulite cel·lu·lite n. A fatty deposit causing a dimpled or uneven appearance, as around the thighs. Cellulite Cellulite is dimply skin caused by uneven fat deposits beneath the surface. . * If you occasionally mix up magnesium with manganese or folic acid with ascorbic acid, if you've heard that people get too much vitamin B (there isn't one, but eight) or vitamin F (there isn't even one), or if you worry that you get too little lutein lutein /lu·te·in/ (-in) 1. a lipochrome from the corpus luteum, fat cells, and egg yolk. 2. any lipochrome. lu·te·in n. 1. (or you think that a lutein is a musical instrument) ... cheer up. * You can go bonkers trying to keep up with the fast-breaking news on vitamins, etc. Our quiz can help you sort it all out. |
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