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Vitamin C

Vitamin C is beneficial for the immune system defenses, protecting against viruses and bacteria, healing wounds, reducing cholesterol in blood, cell growth and prevention of scurvy. It is a good natural laxative.

Its lack can lead to tiredness, bleeding gums and slow healing of wounds.

Good sources of vitamin C:

- Citrus fruits like oranges, lemons, kiwis.

- Berries

- Tomatoes

- Cauliflower

- Potatoes

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Vitamin C is also known as ascorbic acid, L-ascorbic acid, dehydroascorbic acid, antiscorbutic vitamin, L-xyloascorbic and l-threo-hex-2-uronic acid-lactone, there was much talk about vitamin, with the people claiming that as a panacea for the ills of May and problems – from cancer to the common cold.

Vitamin C is a water-soluble antioxidants can quench both reactive oxygen species and reactive nitrogen species. This antioxidant activity decreases lipid peroxidation, oxidative DNA damage and oxidative damage in proteins. Oxidation of low density lipoprotein (LDL) has been suggested as a factor causing atherosclerosis. Vitamin C prevents oxidized LDL. Vitamin C increases high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, probably due to decreased risk of atherosclerosis.

Women and men should consume at least 60 milligrams of vitamin C every day. People who smoke need to consume more vitamin C because the snuff interferes with the body’s ability to use vitamins. Women who smoke should consume 110 milligrams per day of vitamin c, and men who smoke should consume 125 milligrams of vitamin C.

Mexico has a rich variety of medicinal plants and many of them are traditionally used as folk remedies. This is the number of species of medicinal plants in Mexico that only in the state of Veracruz were collected about 500, the total number of medicinal plants in Mexico is nearly 10.000 species.

White sapote: Also known as Mexican pear, grows fruit yellowish or greenish rounded taste like peach. The leaves and bark of white Zapote, but especially the seeds contain glycosides, a substance with potent hypnotic and sedative used for insomnia and rheumatic pain.

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You are not eating green vegetables, you should immediately change his bad habits it. Imagine, a green vegetable has many benefits, among them to reduce the risk of diabetes, especially women. Green vegetables, can even maintain normal levels of blood fats.

According to professor in the field of nutrition, all kinds of green vegetables contain many vitamins, minerals, and fiber for the body’s metabolic functions.

You need to know that in the body there are three processes that occur is burning (power), construction (growth), and settings. To get the energy, the body needs carbohydrate, fats, and proteins.

To be able to grow flowers and water needed protein. To manage this process so that all happen to have vitamins and minerals derived from vegetables and fruits. “That is, why vegetables are important for the body, because there are certain substances which can only be obtained through the vegetable,”

many ingredients contained in green leaf vegetables. “Green leaf vegetables that are rich in vitamin B complex. It also contains the mineral nutrients essential for metabolism in the body,”

Therefore, do not let your body lack of green vegetables. “a lot of green vegetables contain vitamins, minerals, and fiber. Well, if you do not eat green vegetables, there will be disruption in the indigestion, lack of vitamin B complex, deficiency of vitamin C and D, and iron deficiency, and others, ”

He recommends that you should increase the consumption of green leafy vegetables or a regular and sufficient. “Leafy greens can maintain normal levels of blood fats,”