John Robbins
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 LINUS PAULING KEEPS TRYING
As the years went by, Pauling and Cameron undertook further studies, which continued to find dramatic improvements in quality of life and significant life extension for people with cancer taking large doses of vitamin C. And they kept finding a small percentage of seemingly permanent cures, even in cases that had been considered "hopelessly terminal." |
| Testing vitamin C as if it were a chemotherapy drug is like measuring the value to national security of peace ambassadors and international diplomats by how many "enemy" troops they can kill.
The leading members of the cancer establishment have a vested interest in the war on cancer and the practice of chemotherapy. They have risen to prominence in their profession by virtue of their advocacy of this approach. It can be nearly impossible for them to admit that there might be a better way, when so many people have suffered and died as a result of the direction they have taken. |
| After Moertel took the patients in his study off vitamin C, he put most of them on a powerful chemotherapeutic drug that he had acknowledged in scientific publications to be unable to "produce benefit or extension of survival" in such circumstances.41 I couldn't understand why Moertel would give patients toxic drugs he knew would not help them, until I saw a remarkable paper he published in the New England Journal of Medicine on the use of chemotherapy in gastrointestinal cancer, which explained his thinking to me. |
Mark Blumenthal
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 C-for-tified placebo
After 4 to 8 weeks of regular intake, there was a significantly reduced (95% confidence interval, p=0.004) frequency of bacteriuria and pyuria in the cranberry group. Bacteriuria with pyuria occurred in 28.1% of urine specimens of placebo group compared to 15% in the cranberry group. Cranberry reduced pre-existing bacteria in the urinary tract. Average pH of urine in the cranberry group (6.0) was higher than in the placebo group (5.5). Patients in cranberry group with bacteriuria and pyuria were more likely to convert to non-bacteri-uria pyuria than in control group. |
| In a survey conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates for Prevention magazine, researchers noted that 36% of herb users employ herbal remedies in place of prescription drugs; 31% with prescription drugs; 48% instead of over-the-counter (OTC) drugs; and 30% with OTC drugs (Johnston, 2000). In the Slone Survey (Kaufman et al., 2002) of 2590 participants from about the same period of time, 81 % stated that they used at least one medication (Rx or OTC), 50% took at least one prescription drug, and 7% took five or more drugs simultaneously. |
| A; niacin; and minerals (BHP, 1996).
Pharmacological Actions
Crude Preparations
Human
Antiemetic (Grontved and Hentzer, 1986; Grontved etal, 1988; Mowrey and Clayson, 1982; Fischer-Rasmussen et al, 1990; Bone et al, 1990; Phillips et al, 1993; Meyer et al, 1995); antiplatelet aggregation (Bordia et al, 1997; Verma et al, 1993; Srivastava, 1989). |
John Robbins
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| Rather, these gains have been due to the development of antibiotics, the addition of vitamin D to milk (thus preventing rickets), advances in public health, sanitation, and nutrition, improvement in women's working conditions, and other measures that improved maternal health prior to birth. Remarkably, the study concluded that maternal and infant mortality and morbidity would actually have declined even further without obstetrical interventions.
When I first began to ponder these and many similar studies, I did not want to believe their implications. |
John Heinerman
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 Noted for its strong vitamin C content.
SALMONBERRY (Rubus spetabilis). Its name comes from its yellow color. Common to the northwestern U.S. Has a strong, sour taste. Better cooked than raw.
STRAWBERRY (Cultivated, Wild) (Frangaria ananassa, F. vesca). Well-known enough that it needs little or no description to speak of.
THIMBLEBERRY (Rubus parviflorus or R. nutkanus). Common throughout the Pacific Northwest, its raspberry-red berries are shaped like a thimble, hence the name. It has an especially soft texture like juicy velvet that almost seems to literally melt in your mouth. |
Earl L. Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D.
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 Both excess potassium (such as is caused by ACE inhibitors) and cimetidine (Tagamet) and proton pump inhibitors such as omeprazole can interfere with the absorption of vitamin B12. A deficiency of B12 can cause symptoms of senility. How many older people have been put into nursing homes because they were taking cimetidine long term, which blocked B12 absorption? We see ads on TV for these drugs over and over and over again, and eventually, even though we know better, we think the drugs are harmless because that's how they're portrayed in the advertising. |
Alexander Hellemans and Brian Bunch
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 Beckman develops the pH meter, the first instrument that accurately measures the amount of acidity or alkalinity in a solution using electronic means
Marie Sklodowska Curie, Polish-French chemist, d Haute Savoie, France, Jul 4
Fritz Haber, German chemist, d Basel, Switzerland, Jan 29
Walter Norman Haworth (b Chorley, England, Mar 19, 1883) is among the first to synthesize vitamin C, which he names ascorbic acid
American biochemist J.P. Lent discovers an anticoagulant in spoiled clover, now known as coumarin
Karl Paul Gottfried von Linde, German chemist, d Munich, Bavaria, Nov 16
Harold C. |
| Mangold show that if an amphibian embryo is grafted to another embryo, the graft is formed in part from tissue of the host, demonstrating "organizing action" by the second embryo; this is one of a series of experiments by Spemann that demonstrates that cells affect other cells near them
Harry Steenbock discovers that the ultraviolet component of sunlight increases the amount of vitamin D in food
Louis -Marie -Hilaire Bernigaud, comte de Chardonnet, French chemist, d Paris, Mar 12
1925 Arthur S. |
Stephen Fried
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 For years, the world's strip-malls were increasingly populated by weight-loss "centers" that sold whatever foods, vitamin supplements and quasi-medicinal products went along with the diet plan du jour. But as new weight-loss medicines became popular just as managed care was squeezing physicians into new lines of work, many diet centers quickly hired doctors and added prescriptions to their product lines. In some cases, doctors opened their own competing weight-loss centers. They all sold the same things: hope and access to diet pills which, in time, became one and the same. |
| He initially believed that vitamin A acid would eliminate pimples by slowing the normal process by which skin cells slough off. He later came to think that it instead normalizes that process and prevents cells from coming together to make a pimple in the first place.
Kligman realized his future wasn't in treating patients full time. He was an inventor, a teacher, a proselytizer and a damn colorful guy who, in his free time, became a world authority on mushrooms. He also had a real gift for getting research grants. In fact, he may have been too good at it. |
| One thing he tried was vitamin A, which he started giving patients orally. "They were very high doses. I damn near killed people [before] I could see a real benefit," he recalled matter-of-factly. "Every one of them got sick. Their acne got better, but their hair fell out. A few of them said, 'Okay, I'm willing to be sick: keep pouring that poison into me. I'd rather lose my hair than have pimples.'
"This is one of the reasons doctors got away with abusive treatments. ... By that time I had learned that patients are unreliable and what they think is worthless. ... |
| He also explained how the antibiotic tetracycline could be inactivated not only by milk—as patients are often warned—but also by vitamin and mineral supplements, and even antacids.
Oprah looked dead into the camera and said, "This is shocking]" And during the break, we found out why.
She said that a doctor had prescribed her a medication that she had never thought to mention to her other physicians. Apparently she never realized until that minute that there could be an interaction risk. I looked over to Diane and realized that she had heard something shocking, too. |
| Retin-A ended up at Johnson & Johnson's Ortho dermatological division even though, according to Kligman, most of the research had been done with vitamin A provided free by Hoffmann-LaRoche. "I gave a little talk there and said, 'This stuff is interesting. It works on acne. We ought to link up,' " he recalled. "They didn't have the slightest interest. On the way back from my talk, I drove past Johnson & Johnson [in New Brunswick] and stopped to see a friend there. I said, T just came from those schmucks up there. Are you interested?' He said, 'Let's do it. |
Committee on Diet, Nutrition, and Cancer, Assembly of Life Sciences National Research Council
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 The influence of oral vitamin C supplements on experimental colorectal tumour induction. Austr. N. Z. J. Med. 10:588. Abstract.
MacLennan, R., J. Da Costa, N. E. Day, C. H. Law, Y. K. Ng, and K. Shanmugaratnam. 1977. Risk, factors for lung cancer in Singapore Chinese, a population with high female incidence rates. Int. J. Cancer 20:854-860.
Mathews-Roth, M. M., M. A. Pathak, T. B. Fitzpatrick, L. H. Harber, and E. H. Kass. 1977. Beta carotene therapy for erythropoietic protoporphyria and other photosensitivity diseases. Arch. Dermatol. 113:1229-1232.
Meinsma, L. 1964. |
| Influence of vitamin A and 3,7-dimethyl-2,6-octadienal (citral) on the effect of benzo(a)-pyrene on hamster trachea in organ culture. Cancer Res. 30:1312-1318.
Diamond, L., T. G. O'Brien, and W. M. Baird. 1980. Tumor promoters and the mechanism of tumor promotion. Adv. Cancer Res. 32:1-74.
Epstein, S. S., S. Joshi, J. Andrea, J. Forsyth, and N. Mantel.
1967. The null effect of antioxidants on the carcinogenicity of 3,4,9,10-dibenzpyrene to mice. Life Sci. 6:225-233.
Fiddler, W., J. W. Pensabene, E. G. Piotrowski, J. G. Phillips,
J. Keating, W. J. Mergens, and H. L. Newmark. 1978. |
Earl Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D.
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 IU of vitamin D.
Crapeseed extract and green-tea extract combination: Take two to three tablets daily.
Acidophilus: One tablespoon of acidophilus powder or one capsule one-half hour before each meal.
Pain
Pain is the symptom that drives more people to seek medical attention than any other.
Billions of dollars are spent on medication to alleviate pain in the United States every day.
Imagine if you lost the ability to feel pain. You might not know when you stepped on a nail, when you burned you hand, or that you were suffering from a potentially dangerous illness. |
Alexander Hellemans and Brian Bunch
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| Wilson's The insect societies is a fundamental work on social insects
Robert Burns Woodward synthesizes vitamin B12
1972 The California State Board of Education demands that Biblical accounts of creation receive equal attention in textbooks as Darwinian theory
Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey, English anthropologist, d London, Oct 1
The first Earth-resources satellite, Landsat I, is launched
B.J. |
Earl Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D.
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| In a study that followed more than 50,000 nurses over a period of eight years at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, researchers found that women whose diets were rich in betacarotene were 40 percent less likely to develop cataracts than those whose diets were low in this important vitamin.
Lutein—Lutein is also a member of the carotenoid family and is found in great concentration in the macula of the eye, the back part of the retina where entering light hits and send signals to the brain. |
Alexander Hellemans and Brian Bunch
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| Stewart by genetic engineering; it is the first US patent issued for a vertebrate
Chemists estimate that there are 10 million specific chemical compounds that are recorded; each year, 400,000 new compounds are described
Biochemist Charles Glen King, who first isolated vitamin C, d West Chester, PA, Jan 24
Sewall Wright, American geneticist and evolutionary theorist, d Madison, WI, Mar 3
Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch-British etholo-sist, d Oxford.
British, scientists who have been monitoring wave height off of Land's End since 1962 report that the average wave height has increased from 2. |
John Heinerman
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| Internal treatment consisted of high doses of vitamin C, light food and plenty of fresh fruit and vegetable juices. He also drank 3 cups a day of the following tea until the infection completely cleared up: 2 tsp. echinacea, 2 tsp. burdock root and 1 tsp. sassafras simmered on low heat in 4 cups of boiling water for about 20 minutes.
Two particularly effective herbal formulas that some doctors have recommended to their patients in San Francisco as fairly good protection against getting the AIDS virus are Resist-All and Herpes, manufactured by Great American Natural Products out of St. |
| They yield fruit-like, fleshy hips rich in vitamin C.
SNAP DRAGON. Any garden plant of the genus having showy white, crimson, or yellow bilabiate flowers fancifully likened to the face of a roguish dragon. The nightshade family (Solanaceae) to which petunias belong is closely related to the snapdragon order (Scrophular-iales) and is a connecting link between it and the phlox family (Polemonia-ceae), which is confined primarily to the western U.S.
TULIP. The name applies not only to any plant of this genus, but also to its flower or bulb as well. |
| Then mix together some concentrated vitamin C powder in a little water and apply to these areas, leaving on for just a minute before rinsing again. Thoroughly dry at once by using a heat lamp or hair dryer, concentrating on the sore areas. The drying is very important to the success of this treatment. Finally, apply some more oil and leave it on all day long. At night simply repeat the entire process again. |
Marion Nestle
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 The label of a product that we picked at random from the "immune support" shelf stated that it contained black elderberry extract, echinacea, zinc, propolis, and vitamin C. The brochure for the product explained that these ingredients are all "well documented" for their health-promoting benefits, a statement guaranteed to raise questions in the mind of even a moderately skeptical health official. |
| In 1979 the USDA again proposed this idea, this time defining foods of minimal nutritional value as those containing less than 5% of the Recommended Dietary Allowances for eight nutrients (protein, vitamin A, ascorbic acid, niacin, riboflavin, thiamin, calcium, and iron) per 100 calories or per serving. This definition meant that the restrictions would apply only to carbonated soft drinks, water ices, certain candies, and chewing gum. |
| A lobbying organization of the pharmaceutical industry, joined by 12 drug companies producing vitamin supplements, took the FDA to court on a technicality: The group argued that the FDA could not implement its proposals because it had never held hearings on this issue. Even critics concerned about "FDA's failure to serve as an effective counterweight against the 'corporate greed and irresponsibility' of the $i25-billion food industry" complained bitterly about the agency's narrow interpretation of the scientific evidence related to nutritional supplements. |
| Thus, the vitamin case has had the remarkable effect of allowing Americans to walk away with more than $1.85 billion taken from European and Japanese firms without the slightest protest from any of their governments."28
What these three examples illustrate is the ability of companies to profit from price-fixing alliances. They are protected from price wars and can raise prices with impunity. Even a casual reading of these cases suggests that they are unlikely to be isolated instances. |
John Robbins
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 Also overlooked in the hoopla was that there are alternative ways to alleviate vitamin A deficiency that are far less costly and do not carry the dangers of genetically engineered foods. In Bangladesh, for example, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) began such a project in 1993. Working with Helen Keller International and other nongovernmental organizations, they introduced a program to help develop small home gardens with improved cultivation methods. |
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