by Vic Shayne, PhD

I have been writing for years that vitamin C foods feed your heart, and now another research item has come across my desk:

“Writing in the journal Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases, researchers from Ulleval University Hospital in Norway report that increased intakes of vitamin C and fruit and berries were associated with less thickening of the carotid artery.”1 The carotid artery is the one leading from the heart up through the neck and is a frequent site of plaque-removing surgeries. As vitamin C fruits and berries support the carotid artery, more blood flow is able to go into the head and brain.

Vitamin C won a great deal of popularity when researcher Linus Pauling fought to popularize the notion that the common cold can be treated with a lot of vitamin C ascorbic acid. However, this is NOT THE BEST source of vitamin C because it is artificial. The BEST SOURCE is from real, natural, whole foods and not vitamin C pills.

If you can eat enough lemons, limes, oranges, apples and other fruits, you’re getting a great source of vitamin C. If you need an extra boost, you may want to try some amazing WHOLE FOOD SUPPLEMENTS. FlavoC, by NutriPlex Formulas, contains vitamin C-rich foods as well as berry power for flavonoids. Camu Camu is a rainforest fruit that has the highest concentrated source of vitamin C known! Both of these products are excellent for your body.

Not just your heart, but all cells in your body require vitamin C, from bones to gums and from arteries to skin.

Sources
1. Daniells, Stephen, “Vitamin C-rich foods may boost artery health, nutraingredients.com,Feb-2009
2. Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases, Volume 19, Issue 1, Pages 8-14

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