Vitamin C & CVD Mortality Maximal Reduction W/ Medium High Serum Levels | Restaurant Eaters Eat More Salt, Fat, Sugar & Co in Fast Food & Full-Service Restaurants
Does eating out put us at risk of too much unhealthy stuff, even if we avoid McDonald's, Burger King & Co? Recent study says: Yes it does! When I woke up today, I thought it would be nice to do some short news and get rid of a handful of studies in my "to be written about in the future" folder. What about the U-shaped dose-response curve for the cardio-protective effects of vitamin C, for example? In their latest paper in the Proceedings of the Nutrition Society scientists from the Queen’s University Belfast and the MONICA Institutes in Belgium and France report that there is a U-shaped dose-response relationship between vitamin C intakes and cardiovascular disease (CVD) and mortality risk in the ~10,000 50–59 year-old Irish, Belgian and French men who participated in the PRIME study from 1991–1993 (Lyner. 2014). Learn more about hormesis and potential neg. effects of antioxidants at the SuppVersity Is Vitamin E Good for the Sedentary Slob, Only? N...