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It used to be that getting your vitamins for the day meant taking a multi-vitamin or eating fruits and vegetables rich in all the nutrients necessary for good health. Now, consumers are finding that skin care products -- such as cosmetics, moisturizers and hair care products -- are using vitamins to help them achieve healthier skin, too. In fact, the number of skin care products containing vitamins has more than tripled since 1991.
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Below is a list of vitamins, nutritional supplements and herbals most frequently used by the public. Under each topic is a summary of the current scientific literature found in peer review journals such as JAMA and the New England Journal of Medicine. At the bottom of each topic are the references from which the information has been derived. If the topic in which you are interested is not yet listed, please e-mailat jfn@VitaminManual.com or check back from time to time, as Dr. Barber may be updating information upon her return. She is board-certified in internal medicine and a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at MCP-Hahneman School of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was most recently in practice there at the Centers for Women's Health, as well as the Director for Ocular Health and Wellness in Bala Cynwyd.
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Because the B vitamins are water-soluble and eliminated in the urine, toxic reactions from oral administration of most of them are extremely rare. (Exceptions are niacin and B6.) It should be noted that substances known as B15 (pangamic acid) and B17 (laetrile) are neither vitamins nor nutrients; both chemicals are highly dangerous and have no proven nutritional or health value.
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