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Why eat cookies when you can have vitamin C?
(Seame Street, 1987)
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Vitamin C is mainly used to satisfy our nutrition everyday and prevent us from getting scurvy. "[It's] needed for the growth and repair of tissues in all parts of your body." (MedlinePlus, 2011). It can also be used to treat colds and diseases like cancer and diabetes. (Linus Pauling Institute).
Here's a sampling of key uses of vitamin C:
Vitamin C is mainly used to satisfy our nutrition everyday and prevent us from getting scurvy. "[It's] needed for the growth and repair of tissues in all parts of your body." (MedlinePlus, 2011). It can also be used to treat colds and diseases like cancer and diabetes. (Linus Pauling Institute).
Here's a sampling of key uses of vitamin C:
- Promotes wound healing.
- Vitamin C is commonly used for supporting immune function and protection from viral disease and cancer.
- It may also help in people with high cholesterol, cataracts, diabetes, allergies and asthma, and periodontal disease. As an antioxidant, it protects blood vessels and the lenses in your eyes, and helps keep body tissues strong.
- Vitamin C is popular for warding off and shortening the unpleasant effects of the common cold
- It is important in maintaining the healthy condition of the body's mesenchyma, particularly connective tissues (which bind together and support body structures), osteoid (the organic part of bone) and dentin (the bone-like portion of teeth).
How does it work?
"In the body, it acts as an antioxidant helping to protect cells from the damage caused by free radicals. Free radicals are compounds formed when our bodies convert the food we eat into energy. The body also needs vitamin C to make collagen, a protein required to help wounds heal. In addition, vitamin C improves the absorption of iron from plant-based foods and helps the immune system work properly to protect the body from disease." (National Institutes of Health, 2011)
"You can purchase either natural or synthetic vitamin C, in a variety of forms. Tablets, capsules, and chewables are probably the most popular forms, but vitamin C also comes in powdered crystalline, effervescent, and liquid forms. It comes in doses ranging from 25 - 1,000 mg." (University of Maryland Medical Center,2014)
"In the body, it acts as an antioxidant helping to protect cells from the damage caused by free radicals. Free radicals are compounds formed when our bodies convert the food we eat into energy. The body also needs vitamin C to make collagen, a protein required to help wounds heal. In addition, vitamin C improves the absorption of iron from plant-based foods and helps the immune system work properly to protect the body from disease." (National Institutes of Health, 2011)
"You can purchase either natural or synthetic vitamin C, in a variety of forms. Tablets, capsules, and chewables are probably the most popular forms, but vitamin C also comes in powdered crystalline, effervescent, and liquid forms. It comes in doses ranging from 25 - 1,000 mg." (University of Maryland Medical Center,2014)
Vitamin C In Plants
"Dr. Steven Clarke of the UCLA Molecular Biology Institute and the Department of Chemistry (2003) and explains, “We were working on an interesting gene in worms.” One thought led to another until, “We uncovered the last unknown enzyme in the synthesis of vitamin C in plants,” said Dr. Charles Brenner of Dartmouth Medical School’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Department of Genetics (2003).
An essential vitamin for people, vitamin C is well known as an antioxidant and enzyme cofactor. Humans need the ability to make vitamin C and need to take it up from dietary sources, particularly from plants.
Only in 1998 was a biosynthetic pathway proposed to explain how plants make vitamin C. Research since then has confirmed much of the pathway, although the gene responsible for the seventh step of the proposed 10-step pathway from glucose to vitamin C remained unknown." (Science-X, 2007)
Genes from rats can also hep increase vitamin C in plants. It is said that transferring rat genes in this process can increase the vitamin C by 700%! (Benton, N., 2002)
Read more at: http://phys.org/news96956559.html#jCp
"Dr. Steven Clarke of the UCLA Molecular Biology Institute and the Department of Chemistry (2003) and explains, “We were working on an interesting gene in worms.” One thought led to another until, “We uncovered the last unknown enzyme in the synthesis of vitamin C in plants,” said Dr. Charles Brenner of Dartmouth Medical School’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Department of Genetics (2003).
An essential vitamin for people, vitamin C is well known as an antioxidant and enzyme cofactor. Humans need the ability to make vitamin C and need to take it up from dietary sources, particularly from plants.
Only in 1998 was a biosynthetic pathway proposed to explain how plants make vitamin C. Research since then has confirmed much of the pathway, although the gene responsible for the seventh step of the proposed 10-step pathway from glucose to vitamin C remained unknown." (Science-X, 2007)
Genes from rats can also hep increase vitamin C in plants. It is said that transferring rat genes in this process can increase the vitamin C by 700%! (Benton, N., 2002)
Read more at: http://phys.org/news96956559.html#jCp