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disease.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>There is nothing new about vitamin
treatments, as I wish to demonstrate by including these decades-old studies.
Still, this information may be news to you, and almost certainly will be news
to most physicians. Let's begin at the end, so to speak, and consider a
paper that was published in the <i>Journal of the American College of
Proctology</i> before the second world war entitled "Vitamins and Their
Relationship to Deficiency Diseases of the Alimentary Tract." The
author of this undated article, Edward A. Johnston, M.D., says that <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>vitamin deficiencies are usually multiple
deficiencies</b>, which show up over a long period of time. "<b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>These deficiencies occur despite a
balanced diet</b>," says Dr. Johnston, "the balance of which is
usually determined by older knowledge of nutrition, and influenced by
conditions in commercial preparation and preservation." This is
what “health nuts” have been saying for years: we eat a lopsided
diet of way too many processed, cooked, devitalized foods and we are not
going to get our vitamins from any balanced collection of such imbalanced
foods.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> What does
deficiency of this or that vitamin result in? Dr. Johnston says that
"Vitamin A deficiency, by its action of increasing epithelial
irritability and <span class=SpellE>infectibility</span>, can be an important
factor in the cause of ulcers" and that "other instances of vitamin
A deficiency, are often found in conjunction with infections of the
intestinal tract, are infections of the eyes, tonsils, sinuses, lungs, <span
class=SpellE>buccal</span> and lingual mucosa, and the skin." The
eye, ear, nose and throat specialist, or the allergist, may be a professional
whose job can be eliminated. Do your part to put them out of work by
being sure you get plentiful vitamin A. Fruits, salads, vegetables, and
multiple vitamin preparations will contain "A."</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> As to the
B-vitamins, the paper states: "Vitamin B deficiency can be considered an
important factor in the cause of hemorrhoids... The enlarged flabby colon and
esophagus are due to deficiency of B by its resulting loss of muscle
tonicity, partial failure of elimination, with <span class=SpellE>obstipation</span>
as the end result." Loss of bowel action and the resulting constipation
caused by B-vitamin deficiency was also discussed by Dr. Louis Gross in 1924
in the <i>Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology</i> in his paper, "The
Effects of Vitamin Deficient Diets on Rats, With Special Reference to the
Motor Functions of the Intestinal Tract In Vivo and In Vitro." Dr.
Gross noted that B-vitamin deficiency also produces damage to kidneys,
spleen, pancreas, testes, ovaries and liver. Since so many persons have
health problems centered in these areas, we may reasonably suspect population
wide vitamin B deficiency. Naturopathic authorities suspect exactly
this. B-vitamins are lost rapidly by the body when it is under
stress. Since most of us are indeed under stress, B-vitamin deficiency
is almost assured without supplementation. Dr. Johnston says: </span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>“Cancer having a
particular affinity for the rectal and intestinal tract may be caused by a
systemic deficiency, lowering the resistance to a point where the
degenerative process begins. Vitamin deficiencies may be a factor worthy of
consideration in infections, degenerations, and malignancies...The diet
should contain quantities of fresh vegetables, eaten as nearly in the natural
state as possible and few refined foods should be allowed in the regimen.
Concentrates of the vitamins are a valuable aid in correcting the acute stage
in which the patient is found when symptoms develop...I have had very
good results in a number of patients on a group vitamin concentrate tablet
with all the vitamins present. This is effective and is not too expensive to
the patient. It behooves every medical man to study and observe the
merits of vitamin therapy.”</span></i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> (p. 48)</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Here is a doctor
who researches vitamins, tries vitamins, and cures with vitamins. Here's
a doctor who prescribes whole, raw, natural foods, and discourages refined
foods. Yet there are so few medical doctors who hear what he's saying,
and fewer still who try the effective, natural approach with their
patients. This is another reason why you have to be your own doctor: to
make sure you and your family have the advantage of such knowledge, you may
have to apply it yourself. Then you decide.</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> B-complex vitamins
and heart disease are discussed in a 1934 paper entitled "Maintenance
Nutrition in the Pigeon and its Relation to Heart Block" by Cyril W.
Carter of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Oxford</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>. The
graphs shown are particularly interesting. B-vitamin deficiency seems
to actually cause heart trouble, because B-vitamins actually cured it.
In one case, an eight-week long heart block was cured in four days with
B-vitamins; this was with a person, not a pigeon. The same white rice,
white flour diet that made experimental pigeons sick also makes people sick.
Whole grain foods (and not just naturally titled, dark colored white flour
breads and cereals) can reverse illnesses and prevent illnesses.</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Ever since Dr.
Linus Pauling began publicizing the value of megadoses of vitamin C in the
early 1970's, there has been a persistent undertone of medical suspicion that
vitamin C might cause kidney stones. It does not. Kidney stones (what
doctors call "renal calculi") can be cured by vitamin C, says Dr.
William J. McCormick, M.D., of <st1:City w:st="on">Toronto</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Canada</st1:place></st1:country-region>. One
among his many excellent papers appeared way back in 1946 in <i>Medical
Record</i>, stating the following:</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>“I have observed
that <span class=GramE>a cloudy</span> urine, heavy with phosphates and
epithelium, is generally associated with a low vitamin C status, as
determined by titration with <span class=SpellE>dichlorophenal-indophenol</span>
(Hoffmann-<span class=SpellE>LaRoche</span>); and that as soon as corrective
administration of the vitamin effects a normal ascorbic acid (vitamin C) level
the crystalline and organic sediment disappears like magic from the
urine. I have found that this change can usually be brought about in a
matter of hours by large doses of the vitamin, 500 to 2,000 mg, oral or
parenteral."</span></i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>
(p. 411)</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> This sediment or
crystalline matter in the urine is what makes up kidney stones. Please
also note that 500 to 2,000 mg is much more than the U.S. Recommended Daily
Allowance (RDA) for vitamin C of 60 mg/day. The U.S. RDA is not enough <span
class=GramE>vitamin</span> C. Dr. McCormick clearly indicates the need
for large quantities of this vitamin, not just a daily drink of orange juice.</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> In what might be
seen as a display of almost too much therapeutic versatility, Dr. McCormick
also found that calcareous deposits of the eye and cornea <i>"may be
cleared away in a few days by correction of vitamin C status, and I find also
that dental calculus (tartar on the teeth), which lays the foundation for so
much dental havoc, can be quickly suppressed and prevented by an adequate
intake of vitamin C." </i></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> With vitamin C,
"adequate" means abundant. Americans do not get abundant
amounts of any vitamin<span class=GramE> in</span> their fast-food,
convenience food, sugar-laden, meat-and-starch, over-cooked diet. They
certainly do not get much, if any, vitamin C. Dr. McCormick believed,
and not alone, that nine out of ten people in this country are vitamin C
deficient. In a 1954 paper, "Intervertebral-Disc Lesions: A New
Etiological Concept" printed in <i>Archives of Pediatrics</i>, Dr.
McCormick says: </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>“It would seem
almost unbelievable that in this day and age, when fresh fruits and
vegetables are so plentiful, any of our population should be found deficient
in vitamin C; but during the last fifteen years of the writer's practice as a
nutritionist, more than 5,000 qualitative chemical tests for vitamin C status
in clinical cases have been made, and less than ten percent of adult subjects
have been found to be at optimal level in this respect. The writer has found,
in clinical and laboratory research, that the smoking of one cigarette neutralizes
in the body approximately 25 mg. of ascorbic acid, or the equivalent of<span
class=GramE> the</span> vitamin C content of one average-size
orange. On this basis, the ability of the heavy smoker to maintain
normal vitamin C status from dietary sources is obviously questionable, and
this alone may account for the prevalence of<span class=GramE> vitamin</span>
C deficiency in our modern adult population.” </span></i><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>(p. 32-33)</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Note that Dr.
McCormick said this in 1954, at a time when physicians were literally
endorsing cigarettes in magazines and on TV commercials.</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> It is important to
keep in mind that non-smokers are subjected to cigarette smoke also, in homes
and public places, and that air pollutants and stress also cause the body to
lose quantities of vitamin C.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Can this widespread
deficiency of vitamin C be behind more than just kidney stones? Dr.
McCormick says yes, for he thinks that calculi in other parts of the body can
be cleared up by plenty of vitamin C, including those in the <span
class=SpellE>biliary</span> tract (gallstones), the pancreas, tonsils,
appendix, mammary glands, uterus, <span class=GramE>ovaries</span>, prostate
and "even the calcareous deposits in arteriosclerosis." Think
of the surgery that could be avoided here.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> This is just the
beginning. In his series of papers, Dr. McCormick further demonstrated
that vitamin C deficiency is the essential cause of numerous communicable
illnesses. Let's consider "The Changing Incidence and Mortality of
Infectious Disease in Relation to Changed Trends in Nutrition" from <i>Medical
Record</i>, September 1947. Citing mortality tables as early as 1840, it is
shown that <span class=GramE>tuberculosis,</span> pneumonia, diphtheria,
scarlet fever, whooping cough, rheumatic fever, typhoid fever and more are
due to vitamin C deficiency brought about by poor nutrition. It is
shown in graphs that the mortality rate for these diseases decreased over the
years regardless of immunization, inoculation or medication. The rate of
decline in death rate for almost every disease cited was about as fast before
immunization as it was after immunization. Public health records show
that by the time inoculations became <span class=GramE>available,</span> few
people were dying of these diseases anyway. Dr. Howard H. <span
class=SpellE>Hillemann</span> (1960) drew similar conclusions in "The
Illusion of American Health and Longevity" published in <i>Clinical
Physiology</i>. He showed that polio was already almost eliminated
before polio vaccine was available.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Vitamin C seems to
be especially important. Perhaps we can see a lack of vitamin C as the basic
cause of kidney stones and such, but what of plentiful supply of vitamin C as
the basic cure for the named infectious diseases? Can we say that
disease trends in history might be understood as waves of lack of, or waves
of abundant intake of vitamin C? Apparently we can.</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Dr. McCormick
explains vitamin C's properties and says that "by reason of its chemical
action as a reducing agent, and sometimes as an oxidizing agent, vitamin C is
also a specific antagonist of chemical and bacterial toxins." Furthermore,
in "Ascorbic Acid as a Chemotherapeutic Agent" (McCormick, 1952) he
states:</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>"Vitamin C is
known to play an essential part in the oxidation-reduction system of tissue
respiration and to contribute to the development of antibodies and the
neutralization of toxins in the building of natural immunity to infectious
diseases. There is a very potent chemotherapeutic action of ascorbic
acid when given in massive repeated doses, 500 to 1,000 mg. (hourly),
preferably intravenously or intramuscularly. When thus administered the
effect in acute infectious processes is favorably comparable to that of the
sulfonamides or the <span class=SpellE>mycelial</span> antibiotics, but with
the great advantage of complete freedom from toxic or allergic
reactions."</span></i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>
(p. 151)</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> There is increasing
evidence that vitamin C in large, frequent doses can effect cure of what are
usually called infectious diseases. To establish that these diseases are
actually vitamin C deficiency diseases, though, we should be able to prevent
them by regular, abundant supply of the vitamin. This is exactly what
can be done. Dr. McCormick states:</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>"Once the acute
febrile or toxic stage of an infectious disease is brought under control by
massive ascorbic acid administration, a relatively small maintenance dose of
the vitamin will be adequate in most cases to prevent relapses, just as in
fire protection small chemical extinguishers may be adequate to prevent fires
in their incipiency, whereas when large fires have developed, water from
large high-pressure fire hoses becomes necessary."</span></i><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> (p. 152)</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Here is an
excellent example of preventive health care, and very powerful prevention at
that, by using a vitamin. Vitamin C isn't just for colds any more. We're
talking here of nothing less than the cure and prevention of serious illness
with a vitamin that anyone can buy and take on their own.</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> And we're not going
to stop there. We're going to take on the biggest killers of modern
times: heart disease and cancer. Can they be conquered? Consider
this summary of facts brought out by Dr. McCormick in the papers cited
above, and from "Coronary Thrombosis: A New Concept of Mechanism and
Etiology" (McCormick, 1957):</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>1.) Four out of five
coronary cases in hospitals show vitamin C deficiency.</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>2.) Cancer patients have
vitamin C deficiency averaging 4,500 mg.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>3.) Smoking is known to
predispose a body for cancer and heart disease; smoking is also known to rob
the body of its vitamin C. </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>4.) The symptoms of
classic vitamin C deficiency disease, called scurvy, are identical with
the symptoms of<span class=GramE> some</span> types of leukemia and
other forms cancer. </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Scurvy is generally
supposed to be extinct. Yet cancer is all too prevalent today, and the
signs in development of cancer and scurvy are similar. Can they be the
same disease under different names? In "Have We Forgotten the Lesson of
Scurvy" (1962), Dr. McCormick reviews the literature in this regard:</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>"As long ago as
1609, Martini cited by (scurvy research pioneer) Lind stated that scurvy is
nearly allied to the plague, as it occasions carbuncles, buboes and cancer.
In an effort to clarify this relationship we published two papers in which we
advanced the hypothesis that deficiency of vitamin C, by bringing about
disintegration of epithelial and connective tissue relationships, owing to
liquefaction of the intercellular cement substance collagen) and
disintegration of the connective tissue of the basement membrane, results in
breakdown of orderly cellular arrangement, thus acting as a prelude to
cancer."</span></i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>
(p. 5)</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>After citing the work of
eleven more researchers, Dr. McCormick says:</span><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>"Our major effort
should be directed toward prevention of the cause of the cellular
disarrangement - <span class=SpellE>collagenous</span> breakdown of
epithelial and <span class=SpellE>subepithelial</span> connective tissues -
as manifested in open sores or fissures that fail to heal readily, and
unusual or easily produced hemorrhage. Such lesions may be early warning
signs of future cancer. They likewise are early signs of scurvy."</span></i><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> (p. 10)</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>He also cites a
description of leukemia from a 1905 edition of <span class=SpellE><i>Northnagel's</i></span><i>
Encyclopedia of Practical Medicine</i> which, curiously enough, equated
leukemia and scurvy.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> In short, we may be
a nation suffering from a scurvy epidemic under the current name of
cancer. The symptoms, progress and results of the two diseases are the
same: the cause is the same (vitamin C deficiency); the treatment of each is
the same: vitamin C in large quantity. If all this is true, then cancer
patients should get better when treated with large doses of "C."</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> They do. Dr.
Linus Pauling (1976, 1986), Nobel prize-winning chemist, researcher, and
author collaborated with cancer surgeon Ewan Cameron, M.D. (1973, 1993) in
directing the treatment of patients with very great quantities of vitamin C
with very great results. An undated letter in my possession from the
Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine says:</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>"Our work on
nutrition and cancer, in collaboration with Vale of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><span
class=SpellE>Leven</span></st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Hospital</st1:PlaceType>
in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Scotland</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
is showing significant promise. We recently reported that daily ingestion of
10 grams (10,000 mg.) or more of vitamin C extends and improves the quality
of life of<span class=GramE> patients</span> with terminal cancer.
These studies, published in the October, 1976 issue of The Proceedings of The
National Academy of Sciences, are based on a comparison of 100 patients with
advanced cancer who received 10 grams of sodium ascorbate (vitamin C) per day
- and 1,000 other patients, ten matched controls for each of the
ascorbate-treated patients (same kind of cancer, same age, same sex).
The 1,000 control patients were given<span class=GramE> the</span> same
treatment as the ascorbate-treated patients except they did not receive
vitamin C. The ascorbate-treated patients have lived, on the average, over
five times as long as the matched control patients. Although all 1,000
controls have died, thirteen of the 100 ascorbate-treated patients are still
alive and seem to be free of the disease."</span></i><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Thirteen out of one
hundred may not seem like a staggering number, but that would have been 130
out of a thousand, or 130,000 out of a million. Also bear in mind that
Ivan <span class=SpellE>Illich</span> says in Medical Nemesis (1977) that
there is no significant increase in survival rate for most cancer patients
with conventional medical or surgical treatment. The five year survival rate
for most cancer patients is unaffected by any medical therapy; it is the same
whether they are treated or not. With vitamin C, we appear to have what
may be, statistically, the most effective known cure for cancer. "Dr.
Pauling believes that the death rate from cancer in the <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>
can fall from twenty per cent of all deaths to only two percent," says
the Institute.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> What vitamin
researchers seem to keep finding is that if a deficiency of one or more
vitamins causes a disease, the plentiful administration of that same vitamin
or vitamins will cure the <span class=GramE>disease.</span> That makes
sense. More important, this theory is proven by its clinical success.
Surely that's the best part of any research: when it works, when people get
well.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> One of the
functions of vitamin C, in addition to keeping your cells together, is to
maximize "the oxygen-carrying capacity of red (blood) cells so the heart
is called upon to do much less work," says Dr. Royal Lee in the
undated pamphlet "Clinical Nutrition: Food vs. Drugs." It is
interesting that vitamin E has a similar effect: it increases oxygen
availability to the heart. If that's true, one might expect vitamin E
deficiency to cause heart trouble. Evidently it does, and "122
independent reports have been published in the world's medical journals in
support of vitamin E" according to an <span class=SpellE>uncredited</span>
article in <i>Popular Science Digest</i>... from 1953!</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <span class=SpellE>Wilfrid</span>
and Evan Shute, both medical doctors, with Dr. Arthur <span class=SpellE>Vogelsang</span>,
traced a national vitamin E deficiency back to the turn of the century when
the milling of flour and consumption of this and other refined foods increased
greatly. They saw an increase of heart disease parallel the increase of
refined foods. In <i>Coronet</i> there appeared an article by J. D.
Ratcliff (1948) entitled "For Heart Disease: Vitamin E" that
described this work.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>"The <span
class=SpellE>Shutes</span> and <span class=SpellE>Vogelsang</span> note that
heart disease is almost unknown among primitive peoples - until they start
eating civilized man's food. Further, they emphasize that in 1910 - before
our national diet had become too refined - heart disease was the fourth cause
of death instead of the first as it is today (1948); and that the rate of
heart deaths is up 250 per cent in this period."</span></i><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> (p. 31)</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> The <span
class=SpellE>Shutes</span> described this phenomenon in their books,
particularly in <i>Vitamin E for Ailing and Healthy Hearts</i> (1969). The
more refined, de-natured foods <span class=GramE>eaten,</span> the more heart
disease. And what is refined out? Among other things, the vitamin E that
helps <span class=GramE>keep</span> the heart prospering, and you alive.</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Since the 1940's,
cardiovascular disease has continued to be our biggest killer disease. But
also since then, certain doctors have treated tens of thousands of coronary
patients with vitamin E. Drs. <span class=SpellE>Wilfrid</span> and Evan
Shute have personally supervised vitamin E therapy for over 30,000 heart
patients, making them the world's most experienced cardiologists. You
would think that the medical profession would be most enthusiastic about
their success with vitamin therapy.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> That has not been
the case. The Canadian, British, and American Medical Associations have
not voiced serious support for vitamin E against heart disease. Why not?
"The Fight Over Vitamin E" (Hutton, 1953) discusses the early
stages of the controversy in detail. The article also expands on vitamin
E's therapeutic uses:</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>"The <span
class=SpellE>Shutes</span>' theory about vitamin E is this: it is not
specifically a heart medication... The chief effect of<span class=GramE>
vitamin</span> E is to reduce the amount of oxygen which the cells and
tissues of the body and its organs require for efficient, healthy
functioning. Heart diseases happen to be the most dramatic example of
the result of vitamin E deprivation, and vitamin E's effect, simply stated,
is to condition the tissues involved so that they are able to function
normally, or at any rate to survive, on the greatly reduced amount of oxygen
available to them when a coronary clot cuts down the oxygen-bearing blood
supply reaching them. The <span class=SpellE>Shutes</span>' and other
investigators claim it is effective in a wide variety of other conditions:
burns, wounds, radiation damage, gangrene, ulceration, phlebitis... diabetes
and its complications, nephritis, eye diseases, psychoses, post-surgical
shock, plastic surgery and post-poliomyelitis." </span></i><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>(p. 4)</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Much controversy
comes out of the wide application that these scientists claim for vitamin
E. However: A nutritional substance that cures many ills is a
substance whose deficiency causes many ills. This is the case with any
vitamin deficiency: the deficiency of one vitamin may show up as many
different disease symptoms. One person lacking in vitamin E may develop
arteriosclerosis; another may develop diabetic gangrene; another might just
have poor skin; another might drop dead of heart attack. This is because
a vitamin is important for the entire organism, in all its organs and
functions. No vitamin works just in or for the heart or any one sector. Each
vitamin is essential to total body health, and all the vitamins collectively
are needed for freedom from disease.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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