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View Post: foodconsumer.org - Scientists Discover Influenza's Achilles Heel ...
24 Nov 2009
For example, taking large doses of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) on a regular basis lowers your level of copper, so if you are already deficient in copper and take high doses of vitamin C, you can compromise your immune system. ... The correlation between lower vitamin D levels and increased risk of URI's was even stronger in individuals with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Another 2009 report in the journal Pediatric Research stated that infants and ...
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View Post: Contend4theFaith » Blog Archive » IMVA SWINE FLU TREATMENTS
25 Nov 2009 by harpazo2home  
Also, an attack of the flu will lower already dangerously depleted vitamin C levels. Whole food vitamin C is often better tolerated than pure ascorbic acid in addition to the fact that whole food vitamin C comes with the necessary co- factors for ... Grind's study showed that low levels of vitamin D more than doubled the risk of respiratory infection for people with COPD - and boosted it almost six fold in people with asthma - compared with participants who had normal lung ...
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View Blog: ... nitrites is heated (particularly at high temperatures), the result is nitrosamines, compounds that have been linked with health issues such as gastric cancer, colon cancer, pancreatic cancer, and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease ( COPD). ... Antioxidants, particularly vitamins C and E, inhibit the conversion of sodium nitrate into those nasty nitrosamines. Bacon, for example, generally includes ascorbic acid (vitamin C) or erythorbic acid for this purpose.

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View Post: 5 Hidden Health Dangers
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2 Nov 2009 by Yuri   ...
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View Post: Nutrition Is the Key to a Disease-Free Life
29 Aug 2009
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)- a recent study found that men who followed the Mediterranean diet nutrition plan had 1/2 the risk of developing COPD. COPD includes conditions such as bronchitis and emphysema. ..... Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, is water-soluble and found in all plants and animal meat. Fruits and vegetables contain the highest levels of this vitamin. Several studies have shown that when vitamin C is combined with other antioxidant ...
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View Post: Quercetin-containing compositions invention
12 Feb 2008
Another exemplary composition of this soft chew includes 5.25 wt % of quercetin, 0.25 wt % of vitamin B3, and 7.81 wt % of vitamin C (i.e., L-ascorbic acid and sodium ascorbate) plus 200 .mu.g of folic acid per chew. ... or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), prostatitis, arthritis, tumor, diabetes (e.g., type II diabetes), sexual dysfunction, chronic constipation, inflammatory disease (e.g., inflammatory bowel disease such as Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis ), ...
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View Post: ISPUB - Oxidative stress: how to detect it, cope with and treat ...
27 Jun 2009
There is evidence that plasma antioxidant capacity is decreased in smokers and in association with exacerbations of COPD, supporting evidence of a depletion of vitamin C, E and other serum antioxidants. Various therapies lead to ... (35) determined the effectiveness of early, routine antioxidant supplementation using alpha-tocopherol and ascorbic acid in reducing the rate of pulmonary morbidity and organ dysfunction in critically ill surgical patients. ...
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View Post: Co-founder leaves Google-backed DNA testing startup 23andMe to ...
4 Sep 2009 by AP  
Mario Ferruzzi, lead researcher and associate professor of food science and nutrition at Purdue University, insists that adding ascorbic acid to green tea would increase the absorbability of catechins found in the tea. .... mesotheliomahlp New blog post: Lung Diagnosis And Treatment - Franklin Square Hospital Center http://bit.ly/1I6Pdb; wordhelper Living With #COPD: Diagnosis and treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. http://bit.ly/16nuk9 ...
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View Post: Does Smoking Cause Facial Wrinkles?
25 Sep 2008 by Roberta  
This has also led doctors to believe that there is a relationship between wrinkles in the mouth and COPD or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease as this may to airflow obstruction. ... C E Ferulic contains ferulic acid, a new antioxidant that doubles the synergistic benefits of 15% pure L-ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C) + 1% alpha tocopherol (Vitamin E) - neutralizing free radicals, building collagen, and providing unmatched antioxidant protection. ...
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View Post: Journal of Inflammation
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View Blog: Cigarette smoking is a major cause for the increased incidence of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases (COPD), worldwide. The pathogenesis of this disease is usually characterized by abnormal enlargement of airspaces of the lung accompanied by ... After consuming the ascorbate-free diet for 7 days followed by supplementation of 1 mg vitamin C/animal/day, the guinea pigs were subjected to cigarette smoke exposure from 5 cigarettes/animal/day in a smoke chamber.

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