Mention vitamins and science in the same breath and the name that springs
to mind is Linus Pauling Ph.D This chemist spent more than twenty years,
before his death in 1994, touting the benefits of enormous doses of vitamin
C for everything from the common cold to cancer.

He was the only person to ever win two unshared nobel prizes. The New
Scientist journal once included him along with Albert Einstein, Charles
Darwin and Isaac Newton as one of the 20 greatest scientists who ever lived!

After the publication of his book 'Vitamin C and The Common Cold' most of
his colleagues ridiculed him as a crackpot.

Linus Pauling lived long enough to enjoy a hearty last laugh. When he died
at age 93, he'd outlived scores of his critics, and studies done since the
1970s have largely vindicated his views on vitamin C.

Thousands of physicians who once scoffed at supplements now take large
doses of vitamins A, C and E themselves to prevent cancer and heart
disease, and increasingly, they advise their patients to do the same.

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