There are many vitamins that your body needs every single day in order to function properly. One such vitamin is vitamin C. The best way to get vitamin C is to each a balanced diet that includes foods like green peppers, citrus fruits, strawberries, green vegetables, fish, potatoes, broccoli, milk, and tomatoes. Look at the labels on your foods. Vitamin C is sometimes also called ascorbic acid. If you are worried that you cannot get enough vitamin C naturally in your food, talk to a doctor. He or she may recommend a daily vitamin C supplement to help you maintain the correct levels of vitamin C in your body.

Vitamin C is one of 13 vitamins that out body needs. Some of these vitamins are fat-soluble, which means that our body can store them for later use. However, vitamin C is one of vitamins in the body that is not fat-soluble. Therefore, the body cannot store it and it must be consumed every day. How much vitamin C you should have in your body depends on your age, gender, weight, lifestyle, and whether you are pregnant or not.

With all the hype about smoking-related diseases, it is amazing to me that more people don't read articles about lung cancer. There are tens of thousands of articles on lung cancer available, but not a single one has penetrated the general public consciousness. If they had, people with lung cancer would not be stigmatized. As it stands, having lung cancer is a double sentence. Not only do you have to suffer – and perhaps die – from a horrible disease, but you have to be face criticism for being a smoker or former smoker. This is despite the fact that many of the victims of lung cancer are not smokers. Any article on lung cancer will tell you this, but no one listens.