What are the health benefits of Vitamin C?

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Vitamin C is essential for healthy teeth, gums and bones. It helps heal wounds and scar tissue, Fractures; prevents scurvy; builds resistance to infection; aids in the prevention treatment of the common cold; gives strength to blood vessels; aids in the absorption of iron. It is required for the synthesis of collagen, the intercellular cement which holds tissues together. It is also one of the major antioxidant nutrients.
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Immunity defense mechanism. Vit C promotes the promduction of WBCs. Do not OD on this, or they will kill some of your RBCs, leading to fatigue, dizzy-spells, or other related matters.

It also prevents scurvy.

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The most common benefit of Vitamin C is to help ward off colds. You also need it to maintain your health. Sailors who were stuck out at sea without Vitamin C righ foods like oranges got a type of gum disease called scurvy and all their teeth would fall out.

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Vitamin C is an inhibitor of free radicals and has an anti-oxidative effect. It plays an important role in the hydroxylation reaction and controls thereby the body-own production of collagen. In addition, vitamin C influences the structure of amino acids.
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Vitamin C is known for its use against colds. Studies show, however, that contrary to the wide-spread belief, vitamin C cannot prevent colds. But there does appear to be a link between the duration of a cold and the concentration of the vitamin. In addition, vitamin C is stronly encouraged for all people who are exposed to high physical activities or extreme cold weather."
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.Vitamin C is a great way to help keep you immune system up. It fights off cold and some vial virus

1)fast recovery from cuts
2)protects from col
that's what i know ?

note :take suffeciant amount from orenge as an exsample but not too many it can make you sick

Oh my Vitamin C is good for everything especially if your a smoker anti oxidents are needed to cleanse our body , so if you don,t drink orange juice take a good vitiam

I've heard it helps ward off colds?
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