Vitamin C is a water-soluble vitamin, otherwise known as ascorbic acid. Vitamin C is very essential to your family health that increases your resistant system especially now that Influenza a (H1N1) is threatening everybody’s health; better eat vitamin C-rich foods everyday. It reduces blood pressure, has the ability to reduce the severity of colds and could protect you against cataract and certain cancers too. The benefits of vitamin C may include protection against immune system deficiencies, cardiovascular disease, prenatal health problems, eye disease, and even skin wrinkling
Red and green bell peppers, strawberries, citrus fruits, raw tomatoes, cantaloupe and broccoli are food that is rich in vitamin C. Garlic contains vitamin C too. On a book about health benefit of garlic, a professor of School Tropical Medicine from Calcutta, India revealed that vitamin C act like insulin in the body, it helps metabolize carbohydrates. Not only that, several researchers showed that vitamin C serves as great therapeutic measure in case of ulcers."Strive to eat nine servings of fruits and vegetables daily, because you will get a healthy dose of vitamin C along with an abundance of other vitamins, minerals, and physiochemical that are good for disease prevention and overall health".
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