Vitamin C kills tumor cells with hard-to-treat mutation in mice

Re:Vitamin C kills tumor cells with hard-to-treat mutation i... by Retric on Monday November 09, 2015 @01:33PM (#10534828)

Nutrition has changed far less over the last 50 years than you might think. The real issue is condensing it into sound bytes.

In a sound bite X More! vs. X Less! has a lot to do with peoples eating habits and overall health not just how good or bad X is.

Especially when it often breaks down as Benefits A, B, C vs. problems X, Y, Z. Yes, sometimes we add a benefit or risk to the list and or change the risk weights slightly, but rarely do things change all that much from one decade to the next.

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Re:Vitamin C kills tumor cells with hard-to-treat mutation i... by prodmerc on Monday November 09, 2015 @02:00PM (#10535015)

I'm not very knowledgeable in this topic, but I think it's changed a lot. The way food is processed changes the way we're absorbing it.

Today's bread, milk, cheese, veggies, fruits are a bit different than 50 years ago - they last longer, taste different, probably because of how they're processed.

That lack of bacteria that makes things go bad faster should have a different effect on our bodies, no?

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Re:Vitamin C kills tumor cells with hard-to-treat mutation i... by Retric on Monday November 09, 2015 @04:30PM (#10535968)

That's got little to do with what I meant.

Replace "Nutrition", with "Nutrition Science" or "Our understanding of the body's need for Nutrition" in my comment.

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