Vitamin C Supplement

Vitamin C is the most widely taken vitamin supplement. With all the benefits that vitamin C gives it is easy to see why. Vitamin C is very important for all it can do to prevent disease and benefit health. The 70 mg. or so that you get from six-ounce serving of juice may not be enough to provide those benefiits. Recommended daily allowances (60 mg.) were originally set to levels known to help prevent diseases attributed to vitamin deficiencies. At these levels you may not receive any of it’s other health-giving qualities.

Benefits of vitamin C

Vitamin C helps prevent certain cancers, particularly of the stomach.

Vitamin C's antioxidant properties may help inhibit the formation of atherocslerosis and may also prevent the formation of cataracts.

At the onset of a cold vitamin C supplements may reduce the duration and severity of cold symptoms. It may not be a cure, but it can help prevent complications such as pneumonia and infections.

Vitamin C was beneficial to individuals whose immune system was weakened due to stress.

And while studies studies are not completely clear, there does seem to be a correlation between the concentration of vitamin C in the blood and the risk for strokes. A higher concentration is associated with a lower risk for strokes.