[Sca-cooks] OOP - Fw: Jasper and The Uncooked Yeast Rolls

[Avraham haRofeh of Sudentur]

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 21:50:51 -0500, tara at kolaviv.com wrote:
> vitamin C - humans are one of few species that need vit. C in our diet
> because we don't produce this vitamin in our own bodies.  Pets do
> produce it, and can easily be exposed to too much by people who give
> them human vitamins.  

I assume (and I could be wrong) that mammalian physiology isn't THAT 
different between species. Vitamin C is water-soluble, and excess quantities 
are readily excreted by the kidney. There is no known "Vitamin C toxicity" 
syndrome in humans.

> Too much vitamin A can be dangerous, and liver has
> a high amount of vit. A, so it should be fed sparingly.  

Vitamins A, D, E and K are fat-soluble and therefore storable - these are 
the only vitamins for which toxicity syndromes are reported in the medical 
texts.


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Avraham haRofeh
     (mka Randy Goldberg MD)
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