Is there a scurvy epidemic I don't know about?
I have been wont, for some considerable time, to take a small daily amount of Vitamin C, on the grounds that it is supposed to improve immunity, especially in the common cold season.
But I also consume what I would suppose to be a reasonable amount of ascorbic acid in my daily diet and therefore I very much doubt that I need to neck down the entire daily recommended dose every 24 hours in tablet form.
This strikes me as appropriate only for those embarking on ocean voyages under sail and out of sight of land for many months, or possibly polar exploration back in the day.
But in these days, it suddenly, well, in the course of the last few months, seems that one can only purchase Vitamin C in mega-dose tablet/capsule/effervescing tablet form. Just about everywhere that one can buy the stuff.
WOT. Y O Y?
Has there been some nutritional edict I have missed?
I know there was that Nobel Prize winner who claimed (but it was decades ago?) that megadoses of Vitamin C actually cured the common cold (but was wrong)? Linus Pauling?
I also have the impression that there are downsides to over-consumption?
Okay, I see that scurvy is making a very slight comeback in the UK - but it really is slight, not epidemic, and there are probably more troubling aspects of malnutrition to worry about. This entry was originally posted at https://oursin.dreamwidth.org/3044484.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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