Vitamin C News For Men

Better Nutrition, Nov, 2000

Catherine M. Loria and other researchers from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Md., looked at vitamin C (serum ascorbate) levels in adults who were part of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1976-1980), using data that was tabulated by 1996. Their findings, which were published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (July 2000), indicate that men with low blood levels of vitamin C have an increased risk of death from cancer, unrelated to whether or not they smoke cigarettes.

Vitamin C supplementation is, clearly, one way to help reduce that risk.