Interesting Facts About Vitamin C

Regarding the facts about vitamin c, incontrovertible
evidence has been cited concerning the critical importance
of progesterone, vitamins, as well as other supplements, to
the genetic health, physical/mental ability, and scholastic
aptitude of our children.

The facts about vitamin c for normal children has been
researched and proven.

Moreover, it appears that normal children benefit from a
daily vitamin supplement as part of a children nutrition
program, further indicating the facts about vitamin c
on health. What's more since vitamin supplements can, not
only prevent certain genetic birth defects and have been
used to successfully treat over fifty genetic diseases,
according to Dr. Bruce Ames, doesn't it make sense that
vitamin supplements would more than likely help prevent
genetic diseases arising in our children, if included in a
child nutrition program?

The facts about vitamin c are well established in both
normal children and those with serious health disorders.

Yet, with the facts about vitamin c so well documented,
why is there so much controversy, regarding child nutrition
programs recommending vitamin supplements and, in
particular, vitamin c?

Facts about vitamins established that the controversy is due
to big pharmaceutical companies protecting their patented
drug profits by using every trick in the book to discredit
vitamin's health effects and, particularly, facts about Vitamin C,
in high doses, on disease prevention.

With the facts about vitamin c becoming increasingly accepted
by the public, Big Pharma recently, again, attempted to
discredit the benefits of vitamin C. This time claiming it causes
cancer. In the article, "They Say That Vitamin C Can Increase
the Risk of Cancer," Steven Ransom critiques Dr. Ian Blair's
position:
...lets put Dr Blair's University of Pennsylvania under the
spotlight and see what encouragement Dr Blair might have
had in taking his extraordinary position...against Vitamin
C.

We must ask the following questions: what Big Pharma
influences might there be supporting the University of
Pennsylvania Cancer Center (UPCC) and its mother ship, the
University of Pennsylvania Health Service? What is the
relative weight of the funding bodies? If industry
sponsorship is taking place, are UPHS personnel free to
exercise unbiased critical thinking? Or are there grounds
to suspect that UPHS been 'bought' - that somewhere along
the line, vested interests have 'purchased academic
judgment'?

Before tackling the facts about Vitamin C issue itself, the
following UPHS general statistics are very revealing.

...In May 2000, Dr Ian Blair's employers at UPCC received a
$26 million, five year Core Grant from the National Cancer
Institute (NCI) - the largest and most influential
conventional cancer treatment institution in the world.

...Currently, UPCC is awash with more than $100 million in
cancer research funding:

$37 million is from the National Cancer Institute; $43
million from closely affiliated organisations, such as the
National Institutes of Health, the organisation which
actually funded Dr Blair's Vitamin C and cancer research;
another $12 million from foundational support such as the
American Cancer Society and the Leukaemia Society; and
between $8 and $10 million from various pharmaceutical
companies. Earlier, in June of 1999, UPCC received a
$4.5 million gift from the William H. Gates Foundation
to research conventional treatments for non-Hodgkin's
lymphoma.

Aside from the Bill and Melinda Gates connection, OncoLink,
the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center, [28] is
sponsored very generously by the following corporations:
Amgen, the world's largest independent biotechnology
company; Aventis, Ortho Biotech, Inc., Varian, Inc.,
Janssen Pharmaceutica, AstraZeneca, Pharmacia Upjohn and
Pfizer. These corporations are very big indeed, and their
names represent no mean sponsorship committee.

(Steven Ransom points out the financial interconnection
between Big Pharma and universities).


  • "If I contracted cancer, I would never go to a standard
    cancer treatment centre. Cancer victims who live far from
    such centres have a chance." Professor Charles Mathe,
    French cancer specialist

  • "...as a chemist trained to interpret data, it is
    incomprehensible to me that physicians can ignore the
    clear evidence that chemotherapy does much, much more
    harm than good." - Alan C Nixon, PhD, former president of
    the American Chemical Society

  • "Doctors are too busy to dig into the statistics of cancer
    treatments, they assume that what they are taught at
    school or what is demonstrated in the pages of briefing
    journals is the best treatment. They cannot afford to
    suspect that these treatments are only the best for the
    pharmaceutical companies that influence their 'institutions
    of higher learning'." Paul Winter, The Cancell Home Page.

  • "To the cancer establishment, a cancer patient is a
    profit center. The actual clinical and scientific evidence
    does not support the claims of the cancer industry.
     Conventional cancer treatments are in place as the law of
    the land because they pay, not heal, the best. Decades of
    the politics-of-cancer-as-usual have kept you from knowing
    this, and will continue to do so unless you wake up to this
    reality." - Lee Cowden MD

  • ..."Dr Linus Pauling, often known as the 'Father of
    Vitamin C' and twice awarded the Nobel Prize, declared that
    large intakes of up to 10g of the vitamin each day aids
    anti-cancer activity within the body. Pauling was largely
    derided for making these declarations, but today, large
    doses of Vitamin C are used by many practitioners for
    cancer patients in nutritional therapy, who believe Pauling
    was right and that the popular nutrient is indispensable to
    the body in its fight to regain health from cancer."
    Phillip Day, Cancer, Why We're Still Dying to Know The
    Truth, Credence Publications, 2001.

  • "Do not let either the medical authorities or the
    politicians mislead you. Find out what the facts are, and
    make your own decisions about how to live a happy life and
    how to work for a better world." Linus Pauling
    http://www.cforyourself.com

(Steven Ransom continues)

So Why the Slur on Vitamin C and Cancer?

As has already been stated, conventional cancer treatment
represents a $multi-billion a year industry. These vast
profits are fiercely protected by the industry giants. But
their treatments in no way address the underlying causes of
cancer. Cancer is a nutritional/toxic/environmental
condition, which, in a great number of instances, can be
successfully reversed through the application of a sound
nutritional approach and common-sense lifestyle changes.
Linus Pauling, dubbed the father of Vitamin C, sensibly
promoted the facts about Vitamin C consumed in high doses
in the prevention of and battle against cancer.

Half-Truths and Lies

So why aren't we hearing about these natural treatment
successes? Why aren't they being heralded across the world?
The answer is money. Despite the multitudinous successes in
cancer regression through nutrition, and through extensive
application of vital elements such as Vitamin C, Vitamin B17,
pancreatic enzymes and other co-factors, Big Pharma is
doing all it can to silence these success stories. To
have it become widely known that cancer can be
successfully treated without toxic and profitable
pharmaceuticals would be catastrophic for its business.

Who would continue to purchase these products? What would
the Siemens, Glaxo and Upjohn shareholders have to say
about that? To their shame, vested interests are keeping
well-proven, non-toxic cancer treatments from the public
domain. This is why, under 'cancer treatments' the UPHS
website says this of vitamin B17:
http://www.freedomofchoiceinhealthcare.com/articles.php?command=show&ID=6097&tID=22

"Several patients displayed symptoms of cyanide poisoning,
including muscle weakness and impaired reflexes, or had
life-threatening levels of cyanide in their blood.
(Laetrile can release cyanide, which is a highly toxic
chemical.) The researchers concluded that Laetrile is not
effective as a cancer treatment and is harmful in some
cases."

But now read this contrary extract from a radio talk show,
featured in Phillip Day's Cancer, Why We Are Still Dying To
Know The Truth:

Radio host Laurie Lee:"So this is verified, that laetrile
[B17] can have this positive effect?" (See video at:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4312930190281243507)

Dr Ralph Moss: "We were finding this and yet, we in Public
Affairs were told to issue statements to the exact opposite
of what we were finding scientifically."

At the time, Ralph Moss was former Assistant Director of
Public Relations at Memorial Sloan Kettering, NY, a leading
American conventional cancer research facility.

Of course Laetrile, or Vitamin B17, is not approved by the
FDA, but not because it isn't beneficial - it is, as the links
provided at the bottom of this report will demonstrate.
No, Vitamin B17 has not been approved by the FDA simply
because the FDA has been leaned on. That's the way it goes
in the self-preserving, self-serving, conventional cancer business.

To put it bluntly, biddable FDA officials are only a phone
call and a golfing lunch away from the NCI and the NIH. A
classic example of these conflicts of interests and double
standards can be appreciated when one learns that sodium
fluoride is also not approved by the FDA due to its
toxicity, and yet drug giant Proctor and Gamble and others
can market the stuff in their toothpastes with complete
impunity.

The UPHS statement on Laetrile is a fabrication. Such is
the wealth of evidence overturning the conventional stance
on the benefits of Vitamin C and Laetrile, that one can only
assume the UPHS statement falls into the following category:

False Scientific Research 'Endangering the Public'...

News, 13.12. 2000 Doctors are fabricating research results
to win grants and advance their careers, but the medical
establishment is failing to protect the public from the
menace of these scientific frauds, a committee of medical
editors said yesterday. Eighty cases of fraudulent research
have been detected in the past four years, and 30 have been
investigated in the past year. In some cases, institutions
have covered up wrongdoing to protect reputations ....

The Nub of It

In an effort to subvert this mass-awakening to the horrors
of conventional cancer treatments, a devious attack on all
genuinely beneficial, natural (and therefore un-patentable)
anti-cancer products is now being waged by a rather worried
conventional cancer establishment The ever-so-gentle slur
on our most vital of vitamins, namely Vitamin C, will soon
be extended to a wide range of essential minerals and
vitamins.

There is strong evidence that vitamin B-17 and vitamin C
could greatly decrease or even eliminate the danger of heart
disease and cancer on American society if used in high enough
dosages, along with a sensible dietary program. These two
vitamins signify the tremendous importance of vitamins on
health.

For more information on the the facts about vitamin C and its
effect on heart disease, link to facts about vitamins.

The facts about vitamin c is too great a danger
to Big Pharma profits to be left to easy public vitamin
access.

From this perspective, Big Pharma's willingness to go so
far and spend so much money on their war on supplements
suggests that the facts about vitamin c and the importance of
vitamins in food may be greater than generally accepted.
Moreover, by silencing success stories about the importance
of facts about vitamin c, Big Pharma prevents that
information from getting to the public where it might
benefit children.

Recent attempts by the FDA, representing Big Pharma, to
make any vitamin dosage above the minimum daily requirement
a prescription drug indicates the lengths they are willing to
go to bolster their profits at the expense of our health.
If this law passes, which it may due to the persistence of
Big Pharma, no significant children nutrition program will be
possible, and citizens will be at the mercy of the
pharmaceutical companies.

Apparently Big Pharma is so worried about the importance of
vitamins in food that they are lobbying to severely limit
their use. Maybe Big Pharma is worried that the importance
of vitamins in food, with widespread use, might lead to too
many healthy people and not enough spending on their
medications?

The importance of vitamins in food, and particularly in the
case of Vitamin C and cancer, might prove very worrisome to
BigPharma.

It appears that high dose vitamin C, alone, would make a
huge difference when included in a children nutrition program
for not only, according to Dr. Pauling would it help
prevent cancer, but along with lysine it would prevent
cardiovascular disease.

 What a children nutrition program that would make! Other
doctors, besides Pauling, have proven the importance of
vitamins in food

Dr. Frederick R. Klenner, M.D., F.C.C.P., his "list of
honors and professional society affiliations is tremendous.
He is listed in a flock of various "Who's Who" registers.
He has published many scientific papers throughout his
scientific career." For a list of the many disorders, this
remarkable man successfully treated with vitamin C,
click here.

 Note that Dr. Klenner created a children nutrition program for
his son, involving taking vitamin C. Here is the vitamin C
children nutrition program he developed in his own words:

"Our son who will be 19 in July has never developed a tooth
cavity. Since age 10 he has received at least 10 grams
ascorbic acid, daily, by mouth. Before age 10 the amount
given was on a sliding scale."

Two questions remain, regarding a children nutrition program.
How does vitamin C protect animal life from so many
disorders? How safe are vitamins?

The general protective affect of vitamin C may, in part, be
due to the fact it is the only antioxidant that has been
proven to increase collagen synthesis. Collagen formation
is essential for body growth, tissue repair and wound
healing. Vitamin C serves as a signal for collagen genes to
synthesize collagen.

Notice, the importance of vitamins in food is often due to
their affect on genes. Hence, vitamin C would be at the
top of my list in any children nutrition program.

The importance of vitamins in food is reinforced by
B-17's possible effect of eliminating cancer. The importance
of knowing the facts about vitamin c is striking due to
its ability to potentially eliminate heart disease, according
to Linus Pauling and others. The importance of knowing the
facts about vitamin c is bolstered even more by its general
disease fighting ability.

Although the importance of vitamins in food is established,
it is imperative that vitamins be safe. Except for the
mineral iron, vitamins appear extremely safe.

According to the following graph, vitamins appear very safe
to include in a children nutrition program. Surprisingly, Properly
Prescribed & Used Drugs are the fourth leading cause of
death in the US.

Considering the facts about vitamin c and vitamins in
general, one is 50,000 times more likely to die from a
correct doctor's prescription than vitamins. In fact, one
is 40 times more likely to die from a lightning strike than
dietary supplements.

Conclusions, regarding interesting facts about vitamin c:


  • A children nutrition program, including dietary supplements
    is not only very safe, but a necessity for optimal child
    health and protection.

  • Knowing the facts about vitamin c is so vital that a
    widespread supplement program might result in the virtual
    elimination of cancer, heart disease, as well as a whole
    host of other health disorders.

  • "To the cancer establishment, a cancer patient is a
    profit center," according to Dr. Lee Cowden MD.

  • The FDA represents Big Pharma.

  • Big Pharma's war on vitamins is totally profit driven.

  • Cancer is a nutritional/toxic/environmental condition,
    probably best addressed by diet, vitamins and
    supplements and research into these areas.

  • The facts about vitamin c and vitamins in general, is so
    critical that Big Pharma's profit driven war against the
    distribution and public awareness of vitamins should be
    considered genocide.

  • With the established facts about vitamin c, and vitamins
    in general, documented it is interesting to note that much
    of the money given by the National Cancer Institute, the
    National Institutes of Health, the Leukaemia Society, the
    American Cancer Society and the William H. Gates Foundation
    goes to study traditional cancer research, instead of vitamin
    and supplement research that has a better record
    fighting and preventing cancer.

  • Big Pharma's war on vitamins is a profit driven
    fabrication. As such, their research is to be considered
    with that in mind.

  • The facts about vitamin c and importance of vitamins, in
    general, is too important to be left up to Big Pharma.
    Parents must do their own research.



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