Egads. what next???? Now they're warning us about Vitamin C. Reuters reports:

High doses of vitamin C may worsen arthritis, at least in guinea pigs, U.S. researchers reported on Friday.

The finding by a team at Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina contradicts previous studies that suggested large doses of the vitamin may protect against osteoarthritis.


Dr. Virginia Kraus, an associate professor of medicine who led the study said the vitamin may help prevent the chemical reactions that cause damage in the short term, but become damaging in the long term.


"It's possible that brief exposure to high levels of vitamin C offers antioxidant effects with a minimum of side effects, while prolonged exposure results in deleterious effects," said Kraus.

Writing in the journal Arthritis & Rheumatism, her team said guinea pigs given high doses of vitamin C for eight months had more symptoms of arthritis than animals fed low or moderate doses.

Is nothing sacred anymore? Now the Moderate Voice will have to revise his medical rant bit:

How ya doin? So, where are you from? Anyone here from Bridgeport, Connecticut? It's a great place to be from...Hope you're healthy. You gotta have your health.

The other day I went to my doctor. I walked in and he was next to his nurse shouting: "Polio! Tetnus! Pneumonia! Flu!" I asked her, "What's he doing?" She said, "Oh, he just likes to call the shots around here....."

But I gotta tell ya, I was running a bad fever. So he took out a thermometer. "Rectal or oral?" he asked. "Rectal or oral? Rectal or oral?" I said "Don't you know the difference between a rectal and oral thermometer?" He said, "Sure...the taste..." Then he took my temperature and said "you have mono."

I said "Mono, at my age? I knew a kid who came down with mono." So the doctor said, "I know Siamese twins who came down with stereo...." These are the jokes, folks....So then I thought I'd play it safe and take Vitamin C. Ya know, it's good for ya -- antioxidant, guzzle it and you cut down on your cold. But then I learned about a guy who took too much and he's now in a wheelchair. And now they say that if you take too much of it you can die of health..."

I hate to have to revise this AGAIN. (DISCLOSURE: The Moderate Voice does not actually use these jokes in his act. They are much too sophisticated).