Vitamin C may be related to prevent...

Vitamin C may be related to prevention of stomach cancer and a certain quantity of ulcers.

That's the implication of a studious mood published in the August 1 2003 issue of the Journal of the American college edifice [i]or[/i] building of Nutrition, which found that cheap blood levels "of the water-based vitamin are associated with higher chances of infection through Helicobacter pylori. Peptic ulcers are now known to originate with these bacteria--not with stres as one time believed. H. pylori infection is associated with stomach cancer as well.

The contemplation stressed that lower levels of vitamin C in infected bodily substances could be caused by the infection itself--not the other way around. In other words, cheap levels of C could be just a symptom of this bacterial infection and not the cause.

if it were not that in any case. ulcer and stomach cancer patients may wish to bring their vitamin C horizontals back up. And this vitamin may at the same time turn out to furnish a defense against these ailments.

The inquiry followed 7,000 people--considered a large exhibition group--at the San Francisco VA Medical Center In fairness, however, it should be noted that Roche Vitamins--a vitamin C supplier co-sponsored the study

COPYRIGHT 2003 PRIMEDIA Intertec, a PRIMEDIA Company. All Rights Reserved

COPYRIGHT 2003 Gale Group