Herbal Supplements Tips

Article by Enerchange

Vitamin C or ascorbic acid is an essential nutrient for normal functioning of our body. vit C is a water soluble vitamin that is easily excreted from the body when not needed. Because of its widespread use as a dietary supplement, vitamin C may be more familiar to the general public than any other nutrient. Unlike most mammals, humans don’t have the ability to make their own vit C. We must therefore obtain vitamin C through our diet. vit C is no newcomer to the health scene; it’s probably the best known of all the vitamins. Studies indicate that more than 40% of older individuals in the U.S. take vit C supplements; and in some regions of the country, almost 25% of all adults, regardless of age, take vitamin C. Outside of a multivitamin, vitamin C is also the most popular supplement among some groups of registered dietitians, and 80% of the dietitians who take vit C take more than 250 milligrams.

Health benefits of vitamin C

Vitamin C has received a great deal of attention, and with good reason. vit C is one of the safest and most effective nutrients, experts say. It may not be the cure for the common cold (though it’s thought to help prevent more serious complications). Higher blood levels of vit C may be the ideal nutrition marker for overall health. Benefits of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) include the benefits for immune system. vit C is a great protection against immune system problems. Ascorbic acid benefits include benefits for your bones. Vitamin C is used in many nutritional supplements for bone health. Ascorbic acid benefits include the ability of vit C to help with healing bed sores.
Vitamin C benefits include great skin healing properties. Ascorbic acid makes skin younger looking, brighter and healthier. Great vitamin C benefits include prevention of skin wrinkling. vit C can also be useful for spider veins and broken capillaries. vit C benefits include the benefits for your heart. Vitamin C is a great antioxidant. Vitamin C is associated with reduction of inflammation.
What can high-vitamin C foods do for you?
Help protect cells from free radical damage
Lower your cancer risk
Regenerate your vitamin E supplies
Improve iron absorption
How Vitamin C helpful for our skin ?

It has been studied that vitamin C can eliminate or reduce the appearance of wrinkles and fine lines on the skin. Vitamin C is developed as a facial cream to help prevent the aging process. Among the vitamins known, vitamin C can be easily absorbed by our skin. Vitamin C, works well in providing protection to your skin from the suns ultra violet rays. Our diet is another factor in premature and fast aging. Eating oily and fatty foods is quite bad for the skin’s health and the rest of your body system.

Deficiency symptoms of Vitamin C

Full-blown symptoms of the vitamin C deficiency disease called scurvy – including bleeding gums and skin discoloration due to ruptured blood vessels – are rare in the U.S. Poor wound healing, however, is not rare, and can be a symptom of vitamin C deficiency. Weak immune function, including susceptibility to colds and other infections, can also be a telltale sign of vitamin C deficiency. Since the lining of our respiratory tract also depend heavily on vitamin C for protection, respiratory infection and other lung-related conditions can also be symptomatic of vitamin C deficiency. Vitamin C Deficiency is also of the contributing factors for anemia. It is essentially a lack of red blood cells, which reduces the amount of oxygen content in the blood.

Foods high in vitamin C

Vitamin C is very common in fresh fruits. It is known to fight cancer and free radicals that have entered our body. Any fruit, or natural portion (e.g. slice of melon, or a handful of berries) that gives from about 15 milligrams to about 30 milligrams can be considered a ‘very good’ source of vitamin C.

The half ripe fruit of the camu camu, a shrubby tree of the Amazon, has the distinction of having the highest recorded levels of any fruit, surpassing even the highest levels recorded in the acerola. At 2.7 grams of ascorbic acid per 100 grams of fruit, the ascorbic acid content is nothing short of astounding!

Most of us think of citrus fruits as being the best source of vitamin C. You’d get 60 mg/day from about 3/4 cup of orange juice. Although citrus fruits are a great source of vitamin C, other not so obvious foods contain vitamin C as well.
Eat more broccoli. A 1/2-cup serving provides 45 mg of vitamin C.
Add a slice of tomato to your sandwiches. A small tomato provides 25 mg of vitamin C.
Slice up a papaya or mango for dessert. Half a medium papaya or mango provides 95 mg of vitamin C.
Think peppers! Red, yellow, and orange peppers have about twice the vitamin C of green peppers.

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