4 Interesting Facts About Vitamin C and Common Cold
Vitamin C is found in fruits and vegetables like oranges, grapefruit, peppers, strawberries, broccoli and kiwifruit. The chemical name for Vitamin C is ascorbic acid. Common cold is caused by rhinoviruses and in spite of medication it will take its own time and course to heal. The medications are just there to make you feel better and not cure it. You must have heard from your grandmother and parents about how you need to up your dose of Vitamin C around the cold season or if you know you are getting a cold. Although people have been claiming for many years that Vitamin C cures cols, there is still no concrete evidence which suggests that it does. There is also a wide held belief that it shortens the duration of the cold. Here are some interesting facts about Vitamin C and the common cold.
1. Research is not conclusive on the relation between taking Vitamin C and curing common cold.
A lot of research has gone into it but no conclusive results have come out of it. No one can really say for sure if heavy dosages of Vitamin C can actually cure a cold. Also taking Vitamin C during the onset of a cold is also not known to prevent a cold. People may have a shorter duration of the cold, but this is also not true of all the people.
2. People who have increased benefits from Vitamin C are athletes, people with a Vitamin C deficiency and military personnel
Unlike normal people, these people who test their endurance skills and push their body to the limits benefit from taking Vitamin c as studies have shown that the additional intake of Vitamin C cuts down their risk of catching the common cold by almost 50%.
