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Archive for November, 2008

What You Need To Know About Vitamin C - Part 3

Vitamin C Natural Sources
Most people today are aware that antioxidants are available in their natural form in fruit and vegetables.

For sometime now vitamin c rich exotic fruits have been in the news - fruits like the acai or others that are extremely rich, not only with vitamin C, but also with a whole bunch of [...]

What You Need To Know About Vitamin C - Part 2

Our bodies don’t manufacture their own vitamin C, as most animals do, and we cannot store it and so we must recover our vitamin C levels continuously.

The natural way of doing this is through food - fruit and vegetables.
Vitamin C is water soluble and for us this means that when we obtain our vitamin C [...]

What You Need To Know About Vitamin C - Part 1

Vitamin C is also known as ascorbic acid. As an antioxidant prevents and repairs damage done to our cells by free radicals.

As it is needed for the synthesis of collagen (a protein present in bones, cartilage, ligaments, tendons, teeth,and gums) it is absolutely necessary for a healthy bone structure.
Many studies and research papers over [...]

Vitamin C Rich Antioxidant Fruit + Benefits

Both my mother and grandmother (in fact my great grandmother as well) would tell me that vitamin C helps prevent colds and that the best source was fresh orange juice.
Well things haven’t changed and various scientific reports are confirming this.
Makes you wonder about old wives tale, doesn´t it?
(Just to clarify, in no way am I [...]