An abundance of vitamin C in the diet may help lower a person's risk of developing type 2 diabetes,

http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSCOL76454020080807

Must be some other factor.

Eating a healthy diet is likely to result in a healthier, leaner body which is automatically less susceptible to conditions like diabetes. And high vitamin C blood levels are indicative of a healthy diet - it doesn't appear supported to say that high C blood levels are themselves responsible for reduced diabetes risk.

Clearly just popping vitamin C pills is NOT going to have the same effect.

Not in supplements. Supplementation was not the issue in this. Vitamin C levels in the blood was. Supplements may or may not have the same effect. This study simply did not address the question.

effect, not cause.

just like seriously ill people have low blood cholesterol.

The study singles out vitamin C in the , but I suspect that you are correct in pointing out that there's likely third-variable influence going on (namely, having a healthy diet).

That's the absolute scientific fact that they always told me when I was young. The only function of vitamin C was to prevent scurvy. If you didn't have scurvy, then you had all the C you could possibly use.

Of course, today even the RDA is 2.5 times as much as you could possibly do anything with 50 years ago. I guess evolution marches on even faster than anyone guessed.

Scury is the disease of vitamin C deficiency. The purpose of vitamin C is not to prevent scurcy.

for reasons that are explained but not believed or proven out to others' satisfaction.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/11/prweb183344.htm


>>In my opinion Jim Fixx died of Chronic subclinical scurvy which was the direct cause of chronic unbalanced circadian atheroma (CUCA) that could have been prevented by an Optometrist trained in CardioRetinometry. Repair of the heart's coronary arteries and everyb other artery in the body is governed by homeostatic mechanisms. These control blood pressure, cholesterol levels (dietary cholesterol is laughably little involved and false 'findings' have caused fifty years of dietary misery) body temperature and just about every other system.

The cardiovascular repair system is efficient but rate limited. Because it is rate limited we must not wear ourselves out faster than we can repair our arteries. Obviously we would not survive to adult age if repair were not at least twice the rate of wear, making it possible for every arterial endothelial cell to be replaced and stuck in place with collagen in eight hrs of overnight rest - not necessarily sleep.<<