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What Makes Food Delicious & The Fight Against Quackery

Something You Should Know

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Is Vitamin C a Cure for the Common Cold?

Linus Pauling was the only person to ever win two unshared Nobel prizes. Vitamin C is a rather innocuous substance, but taking very high doses will give you diarrhea. Some studies suggested that if you took a gram of vitamin C an hour for four hours at the first sign of a scratchiness in your throat, you had a chance of averting the cold.

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