I mentioned that I picked up Andrew Weil’s Healthy Aging this past weekend. When I get back from Thanksgiving, I’m going to share more from the book, as I think there’s a lot it has to say about healthy weight loss.

But for tonight, one quick mention. Healthy Aging has a lot in common with Weil’s earlier books, such as 8 Weeks to Optimum Health. One surprise in the new book was that Weil has revised his recommendation for Vitamin C down to just 200 mg a day! On his website, he explains:

I used to recommend taking 2,000 to 6,000 mg of vitamin C daily (divided into three doses). However, I changed my recommendation in 1999 to 200 to 500 mg (divided into two doses) after examining two well-designed studies showing that lower levels of vitamin C more than saturate the body’s tissues, and thus are sufficient to protect against cancer, heart disease and other chronic illnesses.

He goes on to say that higher doses aren’t harmful, and may be worthwhile for people with high stress and/or who don’t eat their fruits and veggies.

Anyways, interesting. This whole diet thing really is like New England weather: wait 15 minutes and it will change!