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Topic III: Vitamin Dependency, Vitamin Deficiency

I. Can One Vitamin Overcome the General Nutrient Deficiencies of the Average North American Diet? Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD

We cannot be proud of the general health of our population. Every second Canadian has one or more chronic conditions, and the number of sick people increases exponentially. Medicine has not kept up with the problem. The best evidence is the increase in costs of treating the sick population. Modern medicine is very effective in dealing with horizontal medicine–the emergencies and trauma cases…

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II. Vitamin Dependency Andrew Saul, PhD

Nutrient deficiency of long standing may create an exaggerated need for the missing nutrient, a need not met by dietary intakes or even by low-dose supplementation. Recently,(1) Robert P. Heaney, M.D., used the term “long latency deficiency diseases” to describe illnesses that fit this description….

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