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>It's interesting that Linus Pauling spent a great deal of time and energy
>championing the use of megadosed vitamin C to prevent cancer, and then died
>of cancer.

-Actually, it's not interesting, nor significant. Ironic, perhaps.

-Pauling himself stated that he attributed his long life, longer
 than perhaps 90% of other N. Americans, to his ascorbate-rich
 regimen, among other things. That prostate cancer was determined
 as the cause of his death in no way invalidates his well-supporte
 claims of the value of ascorbate and other orthomolecular substances
 and nutrients, and not just for cancer.

-Think of the things he did *not* die of, that kill most people
 before their 93rd year: strokes, heart disease, other cancers,
 rampant infections and pneumonia. That one man died instead of
 living forever says nothing about other countless individuals
 who have benefitted from meganutrient intakes.

-The mean N. Am. life expectancy in 1993, the year of Pauling's death,
 was 73.1 years for white males. He lived 20 years beyond that,
 coincidentally (or was it?) the period during which he took
 his megadoses of ascorbate and other nutrients. Do the math.