Who Needs Extra Vitamin C?
The answer is b. Smokers require higher quantities of Vitamin C than the normal daily requirement. Research has shown that cigarette smoke has a negative impact on the metabolism of vitamin C. Smokers have been found to have a much lower level of ascorbic acid (the other name for vitamin C) in the blood than do nonsmokers. The Food and Nutrition Board recommends that smokers consume 100 mg of vitamin C a day. Besides smokers, chronic alcohol consumers, diabetics and even young women have been found to need higher levels of vitamin C than the recommended 60 milligrams. Medical experts call vitamin C the ‘wonder worker’ because it is involved in a number of key life sustaining functions of preventing many illnesses, from everyday ailments such as the common cold to devastating diseases such as cancer. Primarily, vitamin C is involved in collagen formation, which is the cementing material that binds cells together, and is an essential connective tissue protein in the body. Whenever the bo
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