Are You Getting Enough Vitamin C?
Wednesday August 9, 2006
Vitamin C is a very important vitamin. We need plenty of vitamin C to keep our immune systems functioning and for keeping our connective tissue healthy. This means that getting enough vitamin C in your diet every day may help keep away the wrinkles by keeping the connective tissue under the skin strong and healthy.
Vitamin C is also a strong anti-oxidant so it can help to keep your whole body healthy. In alternative medicine, vitamin C is also used orally or intravenously in large doses to treat patients with cancer and other chronic diseases. Of course during the cold and flu season, many of us reach for extra orange juice to stay healthy.
Our bodies don't store vitamin C very well and we can't make our own vitamin C like other animals do so we need to get all of our vitamin C from our diets. By eating a healthy diet chock full of fresh fruits and vegetables, we will get plenty of vitamin C. Our Pediatrics Guide, Dr. Vince Iannelli offers some advice on the importance of getting enough vitamin C in your children's diet. Even if you don't have any kids, this is still great information for adults. Vitamin C
Poll: Do you take extra vitamin C?
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There is great debate over the proper dose of vitamin C. Your quiz “Are You Getting Enough Vitamin C?” is helpful at answering this question. Are there any additional sources of guidance regarding this question?
You might prefer this site from Ohio State University:
Vitamin C
I love fruit, but honestly, it’s a hassle to NEED it. So, I’m going to invent a drug, and inventually gene therapy for all humans, to reactivate our ability to create Vitamin C from glucose. Honestly, long as nothing essential’s lost, with all the sugar we eat it’s a blessing. It’ll cure diabetes!