There is evidence that vitamin C aids in preventing the occurence and development of cancer, supporting the body's defenses and preventing toxic substances from developing into carcinogens. 

 

Results of a deficit of vitamin C include fragility and loss of elasticity of blood vessel walls leading to hemorrhages, tendancy to bruise easily; varicose veins; hemorrhoids; pyorrhea; spongy, bleeding gums ("pink toothbrush"); gingivitis and other gum conditions; loose teeth; tooth degeneration (e.g. cavities); joint and bone changes (easily broken, decalcifaction); scaly skin; mucous membrane hemorrhages; destruction of bone marrow; tendancy to epithelial lesions (ulcerations of mouth, stomach, intestines, etc.); gastritis; reduced resistance to tissue insult or injury; increased susceptibility to disease and inflammation, retarded growth and loss of weight; physical weakness; depression; irritability; rapid respiration (shortness of breath) and heart action (tachycardia or rapid pulse); elevated blood pressure; arteriosclerosis; blood degeneration (tendancy to certain types of anemia); heart weakness; increased weight and elargement of the liver, spleen, stomach, intestines, and kindeys; asthma and other respiratory glands (e.g. reduced hormone secretions of the adrenals, excess hormone secretion of the thyroid), rheumatoid-type arthritis; tender joints and aching bones; muscle cramps; edema (fluid retention); complications of pregnancy and lactation as well as adverse effects on the fetus; tendency to a raised temperature, lowered glucose tolerance; cataracts; gangrene. Smoking lowers vitamin C levels in the body. 

 

Foods rich in vitamin C complex are strawberries, citrus fruits (oranges, lemons, grapefruit, limes), pineapple, guava, black currant, cabbage, turnip greens, tomatoes, broccoli, cantaloupe, kale, horseradish, parley, corn, rose hips, acerola berries, brussel sprouts, collards, peppers (especially red), papayas, beet greens, cauliflower, chives, kohlrabi, mustard, watercress, spinach, and cranberries. 

 

 

 

 

Although "Catalyn" (a food concentrate containing all the necessary vitamins) has been found very effective for the last four years as a remedy for heart weakness and heart disorders in general, it is only within the last year that any of the literature on vitamin subjects has contained any references to this possibility. 

 

Sherman & Smith, The Vitamins, page 81 state: "Absence of another vitamin B fraction apparently leads to heart block and a remarkably slow pulse..."

 

Dr. D. T. Quigley, in his vitamin chart, (published by the Consolidated Book of Publishers, Chicago) under vitamin C, states that a deficiency of this essential results in, among other things, physical weakness, shortness of breath, rapid respiration, rapid heart action and tendency to disease of blood vessels and heart. 

 

Dr. Quigley, also states in Notes on Vitamins and Diets, page 126 (Consolidated Book Publishers), "Sudden death from heart disease in relatively young or middle aged persons is caused, in a measure, by blood vessel and heart disease resulting from lack of sufficient foods containing vitamin C."

 

Valvular involvement arises in many cases from infection. "The organisms may have a special affinity for heart valves and may... produce organic disease of the heart." (Quigley, page 70.) This susceptibility and low resistance is largely a result of vitamin A deficiency, which is also known as the "anti-infective vitamin."

 

Vitamin B deficiency is known to produce loss of appetite through its effects of causing a loss of tone of the stomach muscles. This loss of tone also may affect the heart and muscular walls of the arterioles -- resulting in heart weakness and edema, respectively. (See Sherman & Smith, page 81.)

 

That explains the consistient results obtained in dropsy cases with "Catalyn." The accumulation of water in the tissues can result from a great number of factors. The liver, kidneys and heart can be individually and severally to blame. But we are beginnning to see that their condition, too, is a consequence of the vitamin deficiency, and the change for the better will begin to occur as soon as the real cause of the situation is corrected. 

 

The real reason that vitamins have not been given their full credit for performing the results we have been able to demonstrate is that the full complmement of vitamins have not been commercially avaliable in suffuciently concentrated form. Vitamins A and D have been over-popularized, and the more important members of the family -- "B" and "C" -- have been neglected (except by fruit growers' associations, who do not offer concentrations). 

 

It has been noted that more or less disappointing results have attended the use of single vitamin concentrates. This is true of "A" and "D", particularly the "synthetic" D -- Viosterol, etc. 

 

The reason for this is: The various vitamins cooperate in producing a given result or in the promotion of a particular function. For instance, as we have mentioned in the beginning of these comments, vitamin A deficiency can induce susceptibility to infection of the heart valves, "B" deficiency can paralyze the nervous control and causes muscular weakness of the heart; and "C" deficiency will cause a shortness of breath, rapid heart action, and rapid respiration.