How Do You Eat More Vitamin C?
• Understand the value of increasing (or improving) your vitamin C intake. Vitamin C is an important micronutrient in the human diet.[3] It has a role in sustaining memory,[4] helps to prevent cell mutations and premature aging,[5] prevents oxidation of fatty foods,[6] and supports the immune system.[7][8] • Note that there is no strong scientific evidence proving that vitamin C stops the common cold.[9] It may ease the cold and perhaps shorten its duration but it’s not likely to prevent it. • Be aware that most people should be able to get adequate vitamin C from a healthy, nutritionally optimized diet. If you’re eating nothing but fast food, be prepared for some major changes! • If you are stressed, it is very likely that your vitamin C is being depleted. Ongoing stress uses up vitamin C rapidly,[10] so adding more vitamin C containing food to your diet during stressful periods of your life makes good nutritional and common sense. • Vitamin C counteracts some of the inhibitors in foo
