Vitamin C and the Common Cold

By following the simple, inexpensive and safe regimen described in this book, you can greatly reduce your chances of catching cold and, at the same time, improve your general health. So contends its Nobel Prize-winning author Linus Pauling. Despite widespread popular belief in its effectiveness in preventing and combating the common cold, vitamin C (ascorbic acid) is still discounted by many medical and nutritional authorities s a useful preventative treatment. Now Professor Pauling, after carefully reexamining the evidence and conducting his own tests, concludes that when properly used this naturally occurring food substance - far safer than the drugs usually prescribed or recommended for colds - is thoroughly effective in both the prevention and the alleviation of the common cold and related diseases. The common cold is extraordinarily common. It occurs more often than all other diseases combined. Colds cause much human suffering and great losses of time and money, and can lead to more serious diseases. Yet at a cost of a few cents a day per person, contends Pauling, the incidence of the common cold can be greatly reduced. It is all clearly explained in this brief, readable book addressed to the general public. Professor Pauling reviews the evidence that led him to his conclusion, suggests why the medical profession has so far failed to accept that conclusion, and shows how you can set up an inexpensive ascorbic-acid regimen for yourself and your family.