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This vitamin is the most important water soluble nutrient antioxidant. Its structure was determined by Nobel Laureate, Dr. A. Szent-Gyorgyi, who became a strong supporter of Dr. Linus Pauling in his views about the importance of this water soluble vitamin. According to Irwin Stone it should be considered an essential nutrient and that all humanity suffers from the deficiency disease he called hypoascorbemia. The amount present on our food is very low. There is enough so that we do not suffer scurvy. This does not mean that these small amounts will keep us healthy. The optimum amount may be much larger and this is the reason we have had the major controversy about this vitamin for the past forty years. The debate rages between those who believe that only tiny doses, less than 100 milligrams each day, are adequate, and those who believe that the optimum amount can be much larger depending upon many factors such as age, disease, and level of stress. The vitamin-as-prevention school believes that only people with scurvy should be given vitamin C supplements, while the vitamins-as treatment school believes that this view is altogether too narrow and that each person should determine their optimum. Over the years the first school is slowly losing its inflexibility as more and more is learned about this very important vitamin.
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