Know Your Vitamins - Vitamin C

Do you have heathly eating habits? Are you wanting to lose weight, reduce cholesterol, just feel better all over, more than any other place?

We should all be health conscious and food informed. Many vegetables and fruits can lengthen our life by helping us fight infections, inflammation, increase our fiber and keep our colon healthy and working. Becoming healthy is not that hard. With just a small amount of information, we can live healthier today.

Let's just take a look at what Vitamin C does for us:

Vitamin C Thieves:

• Smoking,
• stress,
• aspirin,
• carbon
• monoxide,
• alcohol,
• corticosteroids,
• diuretics,
• antihistamines

What Vitamin C is good for:

• healing wounds

• keeping blood vessels strong

• building connective tissue

• helping gums stay healthy, also skin, teeth and bones strong

• Vitamin C may also boost immunity

Help fight off cell damage with Vitamin C. Doing so, will help protect your cells from the free radicals that damage cells and could lead to serious disease such as cancer or heart disease.

Love your eyes! Start your C intake now because some studies state that taking C for 10 years can reduce cataracts by at least 75%.

Sources of Vitamin C:

• Citrus fruits and strawberries

• red and green peppers

• greens such as collard and mustard

• broccoli

• spinach

• tomatoes

• potatoes

• kiwi

• guava

• parsley

What else does Vitamin C do?

• Keeps your skin young

Help Vitamin C out by avoiding carbohydrates and fats other than linoleic acid; they are thought to make skin worse! According to one study, 4000 women from 40 - 74 talked about their diets from the day before. When a dermatologist examined their skin, they found sagging and lackluster. That Quick!

On the other hand, women who consumed vitamin C-rich foods were nearly 11 percent less likely to have a wrinkled appearance and 7 percent less likely to have dry skin that comes with growing older.

Worried about stroking out?

Guess what! Raising your level of vitamin C in the bloodstream. lowers your risk of stroke. The more C in the blood. the less risk. That was found by British researchers with the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer discovered. They tested more than 20,000 middle-aged men and women for almost 10 years!

Even considering other common risk factors for stroke that included smoking, physical acticity, age and bloodpressure did not change the findings.

So, pop the C's daily! Your body will thank you!

How Much? That's debatable but here's a suggestion: 1000mg of C has been Doctor Approved for most people. It can help with symptoms of asthma, harmful effects of pollution, allergies, and tissue growth and repair.

Having surgery or recovering?

Vitamin C is crucial for helping the body heal after injury or surgery. (Always check with your physician - many encourage the intake of Vitamin C)

Many varieties of C are available, EsterC has a great buffered coating for no stomach upset. There are great chewables for the kids, a MUST for school time.

I kept the kids healthy with fruits and vegetables and daily C!

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