Knowledge of Health, Inc. Blog – February 2, 2008: Emil Ginter DSc has now written his 118th paper on vitamin C, and it is one of the most compelling.
Today Dr. Ginter lives in near obscurity in Bratislava, Slovakia. He has conducted research and published authoritative reports on vitamin C over a period spanning the last 5 decades.
His most recent review of the evidence surrounding vitamin C-rich foods and food supplements shows they dramatically reduce mortality, particularly from cardiovascular disease, among the millions of people worldwide who would otherwise be vitamin C deficient.
Dr. Ginter notes that the widespread use of supplemental vitamin C in Western Europe and the greater consumption of vitamin C-rich foods and supplements with the fall of totalitarian regimes in Eastern Europe, may have saved millions of lives.
There is no better way to appreciate Dr. Ginter’s contribution to our modern understanding of the value of vitamin C than to read his report here:
full text: http://www.bmj.sk/2007/10809-09.pdf
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