In her article, Shocking Study Reveals Vitamin C Can Help You Win the
Lottery, Ann Victoria tells of a study conducted by Dr. Valsing where he
sent a questionnaire out to lottery winners asking for, amongst other
things, information on their diet at the time they had bought the lottery
tickets. The study found that the major link between all the winners was
high amounts of Vitamin C in their diet which Dr. Valsing theorizes could
have heightened their psychic abilities to gauge the winning numbers.
"It could very well be that something in vitamin C has an effect on
the part of the mind that receives telepathic thought waves. In other
words, these people's ESP abilities may have been temporarily heightened,
allowing them to "tune in" so to speak to what numbers would come up in the
lottery" (para 12). This theory is not only unscientific but the theory is
being based on a questionnaire that can not be guaranteed to be 100% fail-
In science, there has to be a control' element to the research and
in this particular study there doesn't appear to be any. I would suggest as
a control, that the questionnaire also be filled out by people who didn't
win millions or perhaps have never played the lottery to gauge the Vitamin
C levels in their body at the time of purchase, and in their daily diet.
This would then provide an answer on whether or not Vitamin C was a key
Luck in itself is a very grey area on what affects it. Superstition
plays a large part in how people look at the concept of luck. Some may
believe in certain trinkets like a rabbit's foot, or a system of actions
that could promote good luck or ward off bad luck. In almost every sport,
athletes have lucky bats', lucky socks' etc that they feel would help
them continue a winning streak or improve their abilities. This notion is
again unproven and more of a scapegoat for failure than a testimony to
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