Hi Katie,
You may care to consider:
If it is true, i.e. that
FMC wrote:...ascorbic acid depletes the bodies real vitamin c and is a pro oxidant.
I [for one] should be sick or dead [after personally ingesting over 900 pounds of it over the past 20 years] vs. experiencing the seemingly superior health that I am. True? Also, what of the seemingly "miraculous" results achieved by Dr. Cathcart [with many thousands of patients] using [typically] ascorbic acid alone? Those are real-world practical [vs. idealistic theoretical] results!
Those people have a sort of "religious" faith in their "purist" dietary beliefs that flies in the face of tens-of-thousands of studies using ascorbic acid [alone] with beneficial results. Perhaps that "faith" cannot ultimately be argued with using science and/or "real-world" examples.
Here is an excellent article written by Owen dealing with [many of] their assertions:
http://vitamincfoundation.org/NaturalC.htmAlso, these two forum topics deal with the subject:
http://www.vitamincfoundation.org/forum ... .php?t=758 and
http://www.vitamincfoundation.org/forum ... =14&t=1761I hope that helps, Katie,
David