The Vitamin Cure - Healing 6 Common Ailments

                           Published April/May 1989
                            Beauty Digest Magazine

                               by Barbara Kevles


    Vitamins, Minerals, how much is enough?  How much is  too  much?   When
    can you do more harm than good?  Now, everything you could ever want to
    know about supplements is capsulized in one place.

    Common wisdom claims that vitamin and mineral supplements added to your
    diet  may protect against the miseries of colds, injuries, PMS, stress,
    workout  strains,  even  environmental  pollution.    Supplements   are
    believed  to  dependaly deliver the fragile nutrients often depleted by
    foods' transport, in-store shelf life, cooking and processing.  There's
    no doubt about it--your body needs daily replenishment of most vitamins
    and minerals to keep it running in top-notch condition.

    Vitamins can be nature's best medicine.  But doses of many manufactured
    vitamin/mineral  supplements   actually   "exceed"   the   government's
    recommended   daily   allowances   (RDA's).   Are  they  safe?   Within
    reasonable limits, yes.  Explains Philip Zimmerman,  Ph,D.,  formulator
    of  Freeda  Vitamins, on of America's oldest brands, "These recommended
    daily allowances only safeguard  against  extreme  deficiency  diseases
    like  scurvy, rickets, beriberi or pellagra.  these matters are largely
    of the past."

    "Nowadays,  even  with  the  best  diets,"  says  nutritionist and cell
    biologist, Kathy Fairbanks, Ph.D., an adjunct  professor  at  New  York
    medical  College,  Balhalla,  NY  and  Columbia University Institute of
    Human Nutrition (NYC), "supplements are necessary.  Extra nutrition  is
    a  "must", not to fight off ancient epidemics, but to insure staying in
    good health year long." Nutritional supplements can make the difference
    between having so-so or optimal health.


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    In the following text  files,  listed  in  this  archive...are  several
    optional cases.  You may choose the cases that best suit your needs, or
    simply  apply  all  of them to your family's lifestyle.  I suggest that
    you also download the file VITAMIN.ZIP, as it contains descriptions  of
    the majority of the vitamins listed here in these references.


    Here's to your good health...                     The Wizard Ariel>