vitamin c deficiency
Your body needs vitamin C from dietary sources, humans,unlike other animals, lack the ability to make it. One way to get enough vitamin C is to eat lots of produce, including vegetables. However, cooked vegetables may fall short in their vitamin C content. Here’s why.
Vitamin C is an antioxidant vitamin that’s essential for survival and good health. Are you getting enough? Certain lifestyle habits and health conditions increase your risk for this essential vitamin. Should you be getting more than what the guidelines recommend?
At one time, people thought vitamin C might prevent the common cold. Whether it has any effect at all on upper respiratory infections is still unproven, but a new study points out another possible advantage of dietary and high doses of vitamin C – it may offer some of the same benefits exercise does. Find out more about this intriguing finding.
Are you getting enough vitamin C in your diet? New research suggests that the current RDA for vitamin C is too low and that health problems could be prevented by getting more vitamin C. Find out more about this new research and why more vitamin C may be better.
