The Versatile Antioxidant Vitamin

Title:
The Versatile Antioxidant Vitamin
Word Count:
576

Summary:
Vitamin C as an antioxidant, helps reduce the activity of free radicals, by products of normal

Keywords:
common cold, infections, diets

Article Body:
Slice an apple into half, and it turns brown. A copper penny suddenly becomes green, or an iro

Since its discovery 65 years ago, vitamin C has come to be known as a ˆwonder worker.˜ Because

The water-soluble vitamin C is known in the scientific world as ascorbic acid, a term that act
Vitamin C can enhance the body’s resistance from different diseases, including infections and

Vitamin C, as an antioxidant, helps reduce the activity of free radicals. Free radicals are by


Vitamin C prevents free radical damage in the lungs and may even help to protect the central n

As an antioxidant, vitamin C’s primary role is to neutralize free radicals. Since ascorbic aci

The versatile vitamin C also works along with glutathione peroxidase (a major free radical-fig

Optimal health, however, requires a balance between free radical generation and antioxidant pr

However, there is research to show that vitamin C may act as a pro-oxidant. In other words, vi

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