{"id":3115,"date":"2015-08-24T14:37:46","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T14:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eternahealthfood.com\/?p=3115"},"modified":"2015-08-24T14:37:46","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T14:37:46","slug":"the-benefits-of-vitamin-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eternahealthfood.com\/HealthStore\/weekly-health-tips\/the-benefits-of-vitamin-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Science is Recognizing Vitamin C for it\u2019s Significant Health Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Vitamin C:<\/strong>\u00a0Modern science is now eagerly embracing vitamin C\u2019s enormous potential as an antioxidant capable of preventing and, in some cases, reversing a host of human ills.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Benefits Include:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Ascorbic acid, or vitamin C, is a potent antioxidant with increasingly diverse uses in health promotion and disease prevention.<span id=\"more-745\"><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Every step in the progression of atherosclerosis can benefit from the antioxidant power of coagulation factors to preventing blood vessel changes that can lead to strokes and other vascular catastrophes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Vitamin C supplements reduce cellular DNA damage that is the vital first step in cancer initiation and also reduce the inflammatory changes that allow a malignant cell to grow into a dangerous tumor.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Vitamin C supplements enhance the health-promoting effects of exercise and reduce exercise-induced oxidative damage.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Vitamin C supplements also dramatically combat the oxidative damage caused by smoking and exposure to tobacco smoke.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In respiratory conditions, vitamin C supplements help avert or shorten the duration of common colds and may mitigate the risk of serious respiratory conditions like asthma.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Vitamin C supplements can speed the clearance of the stomach disease-causing bacterium Helicobacter pylori and cut the risk of gastric cancer it causes.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vitamin C:\u00a0Modern science is now eagerly embracing vitamin C\u2019s enormous potential as an antioxidant capable of preventing and, in some cases, reversing a host of human ills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eternahealthfood.com\/HealthStore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eternahealthfood.com\/HealthStore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eternahealthfood.com\/HealthStore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eternahealthfood.com\/HealthStore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eternahealthfood.com\/HealthStore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eternahealthfood.com\/HealthStore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eternahealthfood.com\/HealthStore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eternahealthfood.com\/HealthStore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eternahealthfood.com\/HealthStore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eternahealthfood.com\/HealthStore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}