Zusammenfassung der Ressource
VITAMIN C
- ASCORBIC ACID
- Your body doesn't store this vitamin
- WATER SOLUBLE
- Antioxidant
- Blocks some of the
damage caused by free
radicals
- FREE RADICALS
- substance that
damages DNA
- Contributes
towards the ageing
process
- CANCER
HEART
DISEASE
- Sensitive to
air,light,heat
- Increases Iron
absorption
- 40mg - 400mg
recommended per day
- Helps make
collegen
- PROTEIN
- Used in the making of, SKIN,
CARTILAGE,TENDONS,
LIGAMENTS and BLOOD VESSELS.
- Needed for
growth and
repair of
tissue all
over the body
- Healing of wounds
- Signs of deficiency
- dry/splitting hair,gingivitis,
bleeding
gums,rough/dry-skin,easy
bruising, nose bleeds
- severe case,
scurvy
- Lowered
immune
system
- Sources of vitamin c
- CITRUS FRUIT, BROCCOLI, TOMATO,
ORANGES, GREEN PEPPERS, WATER MELON,
PAPAYA, GRAPEFRUIT, BRUSSEL
SPROUTS, SPINACH, MANGO, CAULIFLOWER.
- Smoking lowers
Vitamin c levels
- Nicotine makes vitamin c
less effective
- Low level of vitamin c
risk of abdominal
obesity