The elderly should pay attention to supplementing vitamin C

The elderly should pay attention to supplementing vitamin C
Vitamin C is water soluble vitamin, it is the indispensable material of human body. The physiological function of vitamin C is numerous, it has very strong oxidizing and reducing properties, can play a role in protecting to the cell membrane, hand in and play a detoxifying role in the harmful substance. It is synthetic that it can promote intercellular substance, can promote synthetic vitamin D, cortical hormone and sex hormone,etc. too. There are reports, it is synthetic that vitamin C can inhibit inferior ammonium nitrate, thus have anti- cancer function. Vitamin C can also prevent nutritional anemia, reduce cholesterol, prevent atherosclerosis. The peroxide produced in the old human body can promote the body to be old and feeble, and vitamin C oxidizes and reduces function, can postpone oldly and feebly. More important, vitamin C can improve the immunological function to the elderly, thus play a role in preventing and curing diseases. The fruit high in vitamin C content is Chinese hawthorn, orange, lemon, mandarin orange, kiwi fruit, red date, wild jujube,etc.. Content of vitamin C such as rape, pakchoi, mustard greens, persimmon and pepper, hot pepper, bitter gourd in the vegetables are relatively high too.

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