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Title:

The truth about vitamins [videorecording] / BBC Education & Training ; Films for the Humanities & Sciences ; written and produced by Dan Kendall ; a BBC/Science Channel co-production.

Format:

[videorecording] /

Publisher:

Films Media Group,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

1 videodisc (50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Vitamins--Research.
Vitamins in human nutrition.
Vitamins--Synthesis.
Vitamin tolerance.
Vitamin therapy.
Avitaminosis.
Osteoporosis.
Vitamins--Health aspects.--Health aspects.
Vitamins--Health aspects.
Vitamins--Toxicology.
Vitamins--Physiological effect.
Vitamin A in human nutrition.
Vitamin E--Health aspects.
Pauling, Linus,--1901-1994.

Other Authors:

Kemp, Ross.
Kendall, Dan.
BBC Education & Training.
British Broadcasting Corporation.
Science Channel (Television network)
Films Media Group.
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)

Other Titles:

Horizon (Television program)

Notes:

This disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives. Narrator: Ross Kemp. Originally broadcast in 2004 as a segment of: Horizon.

Summary:

"Explores research that counters vitamin advocate Linus Pauling's theories, suggesting that high doses of some vitamins may actually harm the human body. An alarming association with increased osteoporosis and cancer rates is one of several medical findings discussed"--container.

Locations:

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)