What are the effects of adding vitamin C to your diet?

Answer by  katestar (169)

Vitamin C can have several effects on your diet. It can cause some constipation if too much is taken. Vitamin, however, is great for lowering blood pressure and the risk of heart attack. It can reduce your fatigue and make skin and hair appear healthier, helps in healing wounds and makes your teeth and gums look better

Answer by  karthik70 (12)

Vitamin C is an antioxidant that protects your delicate skin from the harmful effects of ultraviolet rays. Vitamin C can actually help your skin to recover and reverse certain skin damage caused by radiation

Answer by  cafish (2035)

This vitamin is especially beneficial to the skin. It helps in the production of collagen. Collagen keeps the skin from sagging. This vitamin helps if you have a skin disorder. Collagen is important for the connective tissue in different organs of the body. It also helps to boost the immune system to fight flu and colds.

Answer by  AssethEvanie (37)

Based on studies, vitamin C helps your immune system and acts as an anti-oxidant. It lowers the risk of death from all cause.

Answer by  YellowCup (1650)

Vitamin C has many advantages to the body. For one, it is an immunity booster and will help keep you from getting sick. It is also good for healthy skin.

Answer by  snappies (579)

If you take too much Vitamin C, it can irratate your stomache and cause minor irratations such as diarrhea. It is a water soluble vitamin so it is replenishable daily. You might get things like hives or skin irratations if you take too much and your body doesn't like it.

Answer by  jsmith (2067)

Vitamin C or ascorbic acid is an essential nutrient in a human diet. When you don't get enough, which is nigh impossible in America, you get scurvy. A number of prominent doctors in the 60s and 70s advocated taking "mega-doses" to prevent everything from colds to cancer, but there is NO peer-reviewed study that shows any of these benefits.

Answer by  leann89 (169)

Vitamin C is great at helping to prevent different diseases. It is an antioxidant. It provides protection against alot of different things including immune system deficiencies. Also, it helps repair tissue damage.