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Old 07-31-2012, 01:16 PM
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Originally Posted by uujudy View Post
Wait... What about rickets and scurvy?
Are the experts just ignoring the diseases that vitamin supplements do prevent?
Of course vitamins prevent diseases that are caused by vitamin deficiency. I understood Gracie to be referring to all sorts of claims made by the nutritional supplement industry that high doses of this or that prevents cancer or arthritis or colds, etc.