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David Cornwell lab at Ohio State: Gamma-Tocopherol is EVIL; Alpha-Toc wears white hat?

Jiyan Ma does the benchwork, David Cornwell slaps his logo on it, and this piece of academia is shipped out the door.

And the AMERICAN diet is rich in gamma-tocopherol. Is this contributing to the spectacular demise of American health?

Corn oil and Soybean oil, the favored ingedients of CORPORATE AMERICA! Makes me want to feast on Hawaiian punch and Frito-Lay corn chips!

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"In laboratory experiments, the kind of vitamin E found in corn and soybean oil, gamma-tocopherol, ultimately destroyed animal cells. But the other form of vitamin E, alpha-tocopherol, did not. (Tocopherol is the scientific name for vitamin E.)

“In the United States we tend to eat a diet rich in corn and soybean oil, so we consume much greater amounts of gamma-tocopherol than alpha-tocopherol,” Cornwell said. “But most of the vitamin E coursing through out veins is alpha-tocopherol – the body selects for this version. We want to know why that is, and whether the selection of the alpha-tocopherol confers an evolutionary benefit in animal cells.”"

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