Since it's made of both a vegetable and animal fiber, the result is a lovely heathered yarn due to the way the fibers take the dyes. Chesapeake knits up at a worsted weight so it's ideal for knitting both adults and children's garments.
The 11 evaluable patients enrolled in the brain cancer safety trial received three infusions of vitamin C a week for 2 months followed by two infusions per week for 7 months while receiving standard care radiation and chemotherapy.
In studying the effect of vitamin C supplements on reducing DNA damage in blood cells, Danish researchers gave relatively low doses (500 mg/day) of vitamin C as plain-release or slow-release tablets combined with vitamin E (182 mg/day), or placebo, for four weeks to a group of male smokers.