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Research: Vitamin C Does Not Prevent Colds
Remember when you mom gave you a vitamin C tablet each day to crunch on and told you it would keep away the flu? Turns out she was wrong.
New research shows vitamin C doesn’t help colds
Nutritionists have been hinting to this for years but never really had the evidence. Now, after an Australian and Finnish study, it seems that there is convincing proof that daily Vitamin C does not help protect you against the common cold.
According to Medicine Net the findings of the research were as follows:
- When taken after a cold starts, vitamin C supplements do not make a cold shorter or less severe.
- When taken as a daily preventive medicine, vitamin C very slightly shortens cold duration –– by 8% in adults and by 13.6% in children.
- When given as a preventive medicine to highly fit people in conditions of extreme cold –– data based mostly on marathon runners –– vitamin C cuts the risk of getting a cold in half.
I find it very interesting that vitamin C has such a different effect on those who are extremely fit. For marathon runner and those in the army the daily vitamin C tablet cut the risk in half. As many readers of RWF are hardcore athletes I would think that vitamin C on a regular basis might still be worthwhile.
For the rest of the general public, however, cutting one day off of the duration of your cold is not really worth the cost of taking a daily vitamin C. They are quite expensive over time. This doesn’t mean that a regular multivitamin will not have benefits though and we should also note that this study related to vitamin C’s effect on colds, not anything else. It is still valuable for many other health issues.
Some other facts about vitamin C
While we are on the topic I thought I would look at some simple facts you may or may not know about vitamin C.
- The human body does not produce vitamin C, that is why we need to get it from food.
- Potatos (esp the skin) have more vitamin C that oranges.
- You cannot store vitamin C in the body, it passes through you.
- It is an anti-oxidant that is good at battling free radicals.
- It is essential for the production of collagen which keeps skin and tissue healthy.
Comments on this article:
| Jason said: | cool stuff |
| Barrymore said: | Yeah thats fact indeed.Well Vitamin Shoppe at vitamin-shoppe[dot]org adds to online vitamins. |
| Charley Johnson said: | I'm 68 years old. Never in my visits to the doctor was I told to take Vitamin C, or anything else, only medication. My wife has a third bout with cancer. Upon looking up something that might help help to prevent cancer, I found a list of 5 items. Number 1 was Vitamin C, followed by Vitamin E. Your body has free radicals running around, waiting for your immune system to lose its potency, and when it does, the radical attaches itself to a cell and continues to multiply until you notice something is wrong. Sometimes its cancer. We are taking about 3,000 mgs of C a day now, powder form, along with E and better foods and I believe things will improve. Oh yes, cancer cells thrive on sugar, too. I believe Vitamin E is a great preventive. Charley Johnson |
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