Cure for common cold? Good ol’ Vitamin C helps!

By Nebil Abdillahi

Vitamin C is a valuable health product that, surprisingly, is not being not utilized by our society. Many health articles advocate the value of vitamin C, but few people apparently, read and follow those words carefully.
Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, plays an important role in fighting bacterial infections in reduces the effects on the body if some allergy-producing by substances. For this reason, vitamin C is used in prevention and treatment of the common cold.
As the cold season approaches, brings with it a variety of viruses. Ever year many people will suffer from the common cold, with the average person contracting two or three. Despite recent progress in the science and health fields, the common cold continues to cause a tremendous amount of aggravation and suffering.

There are millions people in this country who will spend billions of dollars this year on cold medicines, despite their limited effectiveness in reducing the symptoms. According to scientists, these cold medicines do not prevent the common cold. The cold medicines may decrease somewhat the misery of the cold but they also do harm because of their toxic and other side effects. That returns us to our subject at hand. Vitamin C is one of safest ways to fight a cold. Many authorities believe that the intake of Vitamin C in the amount of one to two grams daily is an effective.
According to D. Kirschman, author of best seller Nutrition Almanac, 90 children with whooping cough were given Vitamin C orally in dosages of 5,000 milligrams daily for seven days. A control group was given whooping cough vaccine. The research found that the duration of the disease for the children receiving Vitamin C was 15 to 20 days, while the average duration for children receiving whooping cough medicine was 34 days.

So, it is safe to say that the right amount of Vitamin C, taken at the right time, could save us from the misery we would encounter during cold season.
It is unrealistic to count on using the full content Vitamin C in the average glass of tomato or orange juice to get rid of common cold. Research shows that Vitamin C in the form of fruit juice is useless in preventing or shortening colds. This is because fruit juices lose most of their Vitamins during processing. Another reason why fruit juices lose their vitamin potency is that the longer the juice stays on the shelf, the most the value of Vitamin C is reduced.
Medical experts agree that it’s better to eat a whole orange rather than consume a glass of orange juice.

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This article is for information purposes only. It is not meant to diagnose, treat or prevent any disease or condition. Consult your primary health care provider if you have or suspect you have any physical ailments