Eating more vitamin C can help you live longer

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Eating more vitamin C can help you live longer

Saturday, August 01, 2015 by: Sandeep Godiyal

Of all the vitamins, vitamin C is perhaps the best-known and most familiar to the general public. What most people know is that this vitamin can help to strengthen the immune system. There are dozens of over-the-counter products for taming the flu and or colds which contain high amounts of vitamin C and which are promoted as being able to help shorten the duration of the illness. But while it is true that this vitamin does make it easier for the body to fight off bacterial or viral infections, its health benefits go far beyond just avoiding illnesses. Read on to find out more about the ways in which regular vitamin C consumption promotes a longer life and helps to reduce the chances of developing many common conditions which can shorten it.

Antioxidant power

One thing which many people may not realize about vitamin C is that it is a strong antioxidant. In other words, it is able to help prevent DNA damage that is done to cells throughout the body because of oxidative stress. It is the antioxidant properties of vitamin C which many speculate are at the root of the new study which was just recently published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. In this study, based on health data collected on over 100,000 people living in Denmark, it was discovered that those who had the highest levels of vitamin C in their bloodstream were the least likely to die prematurely or develop heart disease. And since heart disease remains the number one killer both in America and in many other developed countries, this was considered to be a significant finding.

This is not the only way in which vitamin C can help extend life, however.

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[phill4paul]

My doc recommended C @ 2k mg a day because I'm a smoker. Haven't really seemed to make much difference, but it's not like they are prohibitively expensive.