Re: [CH] Re: Health Benefits of Chiles - Vitamin C

Oatmeal Jack (oat@intrepid.net)
Sun, 27 Feb 2000 11:55:22 -0500

Hi George,

I am a little confused by your post.  Are you saying humans originated in 
the Americas? Otherwise how did the original humans get green peppers?

Jack

(ps-is anyone know on this list as Pepper Jack??)


Linus Pauling was a big vitamin C advocate as most of us know.  One of his
papers on the subject included a table of the vitamin C content of a
primitive human diet from a semi-tropical area where humans are said to
originate.  His purpose was to show that the diet was so awash in sources
of vitamin C that, unlike other animals, there was no need for humans to be
able to synthesize it or to retain it in the body.

Green peppers (do they ring a bell?  :-)  ) headed the list of being the
richest source.
George "didn't know I had so many posts in me" Nelson


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