| Okay, so you think you are doing pretty | | | | foods that the majority of people now |
| well with your diet. You prepare most of | | | | consume! By eating these foods a person |
| your meals at home, don't eat much junk | | | | will restrict vitamin C intake to less |
| food and aren't a fast food eater only | | | | than 5 mg per day. The bare minimum RDA |
| rarely. You think vitamins are pretty | | | | (Recommended Daily Allowance) so far |
| much nonsense-particularly since you are | | | | established for vitamin C is 90 mg per |
| eating so well-and besides, you feel | | | | day for men and 75 mg per day for women |
| pretty healthy. Well let me rain on that | | | | -- and this is highly contested as being |
| parade a little. Consider this. In order | | | | far too low. There is a huge body of |
| for nutritional researchers to determine | | | | research now demonstrating that humans |
| the required levels of nutrients, diets | | | | need several hundred milligrams (some |
| must be designed of known nutrient | | | | believe more than a thousand) per day to |
| content with a specific deficiency in | | | | achieve optimal health. Vitamin C is a |
| the nutrient being studied. Then varying | | | | critically important nutrient for humans |
| doses of the nutrient can be added to | | | | since our bodies are unable to |
| the diet to determine at what level | | | | synthesize it. In the wild, fruits and |
| symptoms of deficiency disappear. In the | | | | vegetables would be the main source. |
| American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, | | | | Vitamin C bolsters the immune system and |
| a vitamin C-depleted real meal menu is | | | | is critical to connective tissue |
| described. The diet consists of the | | | | integrity and health. In its absence, |
| following choices: Breakfast: Apple | | | | the nutritional disease scurvy occurs |
| Juice, Applesauce, Raisin Bran, Shredded | | | | resulting in a sort of meltdown of the |
| Wheat, Unprocessed bran, Hominy grits, | | | | basic structure of the body. Teeth fall |
| Cream of Wheat, Eggs (scrambled or hard | | | | out, internal bleeding occurs and it can |
| poached), Cheddar cheese, French toast, | | | | cause a miserable death. In days gone |
| Syrup, Yogurt (plain or strawberry), | | | | by, ancient mariners feared the disease |
| Bran muffin, Glazed doughnut, Mini | | | | more than capsizing. But left out to sea |
| bagel, Cream cheese, White toast or | | | | long enough with only bread and salted |
| bread, Wheat toast, Margarine, butter, | | | | meat they were almost sure to suffer it |
| Honey, Peanut butter, Sugar substitutes, | | | | to one degree or another. Heart disease |
| Low-fat cream cheese, Coffee (regular or | | | | is a leading killer in modern society. |
| decaffeinated), Tea (regular or | | | | Dental disease is epidemic. Both of |
| decaffeinated), Cream, White milk | | | | these conditions can be initiated or |
| (whole, 2%, or skim), Chocolate milk, | | | | fostered by vitamin C deficiency. There |
| Buttermilk. Lunch: Chicken noodle soup, | | | | presence may in fact be the very marker |
| Cream of chicken soup, Croutons, | | | | that vitamin C deficiency is widespread. |
| Escalloped chicken, Pork chops, Brown | | | | Coronary and cerebral vessels lose their |
| gravy, Garlic herb pizza, Grilled cheese | | | | integrity leading to heart attacks and |
| sandwich, Tuna chunks, Yogurt (plain, | | | | strokes, and periodontitis (gum |
| vanilla or blueberry), Rice royale, | | | | recession, bleeding and oral infection) |
| Black beans, Rice, Pretzels, Applesauce, | | | | leads to loss of teeth, foul breath and |
| Diet Jell-O™, Cookies (chocolate chip | | | | seeding of the body's organs with |
| or sugar), Ice cream (vanilla or | | | | pathogens. Vitamin C is not a silly |
| chocolate), Bread (white or wheat), | | | | nutrient to be ignored or played with. |
| Saltines, Margarine, Butter, Sour cream, | | | | Don't assume that because you seem |
| Peanut butter, Mustard, Mayonnaise, | | | | healthy at the moment that chronic |
| Sugar substitute, Relish, Coffee | | | | degenerative disease is not incubating |
| (regular or decaffeinated), Tea | | | | within. In fact, if you are eating |
| (regular, decaffeinated or iced), Cream | | | | exclusively processed modern fare, you |
| Dinner: Chicken and rice soup, Cottage | | | | can count on it. Convert the diet to |
| cheese, Croutons, Fried shrimp, Roast | | | | more fresh and raw foods (See authors |
| beef, Brown gravy, Macaroni and cheese, | | | | The Thinking Person's Master Key to |
| Cheeseburger, Chicken salad, Yogurt | | | | Health (CD). Note that there were no |
| (plain or peach), Pinto beans, Rice, | | | | fresh foods in the test diet. And |
| Diet Jell-O™, Vanilla ice cream, Angel | | | | certainly taking daily vitamin C |
| food cake, Bread (white or wheat), | | | | supplements (500-1000 mg per day) is |
| Margarine, Butter, Peanut butter, Coffee | | | | prudent insurance given that normal |
| (regular or decaffeinated), Cream, Tea | | | | dietary fare is clearly vitamin C |
| (regular, decaffeinated or iced) Evening | | | | deficient. Am J Clin Nutr, 1997; |
| Snacks: Peanut butter crackers, Graham | | | | 65(5):1434-40 For further reading, or |
| crackers, Chocolate chip cookie, | | | | for more information about, Dr Wysong |
| Popcorn, Ginger ale, Diet cola If you | | | | and the Wysong Corporation please visit |
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| something familiar. They are the very | | | | |