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Vitamin C Doesn’t Cure Colds, and the Truth About Other Lies Our Moms Told Us
Mom usually knows best, but not always
Going outside with wet hair might make you cold, but it will not give you a cold. It just won’t.
Feel better now?
There are plenty of myths about health that we learned from our mothers that we continue to perpetuate even though they just aren’t true.
Let’s all agree to break the cycle, cease driving our kids crazy (needlessly, anyway) and stop telling them the following immediately:
Source: Yahoo Health
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9 Comments
mamabear commented on Jul 01 11 at 9:42 amAnyone else annoyed with all the list posts as of late? I hate scrolling through meaningless slideshows.
There’s definitely been a shift to lazy writing lately, I miss the old format.
I subscribe to Strollerderby via Google Reader so I already have to come to the website to finish reading the article which is kind of annoying but to get here and see yet another silly slideshow post.. ugh.
Owen Fonorow commented on Jul 01 11 at 11:38 amI am afraid that the author is either fibbing herself, or grossly ignorant about the subject of vitamin C.
Linus Pauling reviewed the peer-reviewed clinical studies up to the year 1986 (when he published HOW TO LIVE LONGER AND FEEL BETTER) and explained how to properly evaluate the science. This studies do show that vitamin C has a mitigating effect on colds.
All the studies, or meta studies, since have shown is that low dosages do not have much of an effect. We at vitamin CFoundation.org concur. Very high dosages are required to stop a cold in its tracks in the early stages, i.e., dosages that raise blood levels to what an intravenous infusion might achieve. For example, see:
J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 1999 Oct;22(8):530-3.
The effectiveness of vitamin C in preventing and relieving the symptoms of virus-induced respiratory infections.Overall, reported flu and cold symptoms in the test group decreased 85% compared with the control group after the administration of megadose Vitamin C.
CONCLUSION: Vitamin C in megadoses administered before or after the appearance of cold and flu symptoms relieved and prevented the symptoms in the test population compared with the control group.
For those interested readers who want to use vitamin C to stop an oncoming cold in its tracks, try our protocol at http://www.vitamincfoundation.org/surefire.shtml
Finally, you will significantly reduce your risks of contracting a cold or flu in the winter by taking megadoses of vitamin D3 (or heading south for the winter and getting sun shine.)
admin commented on Jul 01 11 at 12:30 pmHi there! We’re working on making the functionality of our slideshows better for you. Thanks for your comment and stay tuned! -Babble Editors
mamabear commented on Jul 01 11 at 2:03 pmThanks for the reply. It would be so much better to just have things listed out on one page in the article. The slideshows are unnecessary and way overused on blogs in general these days.
tripletmom commented on Jul 01 11 at 3:25 pmI agree with @mamabear the slideshows are driving me crazy too!
Kate commented on Jul 01 11 at 6:46 pmNice article but yup, hate the slideshows. I rarely bother flipping through them.
Voice Of Reason commented on Jul 02 11 at 12:54 amWhat mamabear said. It isn’t obvious to me how slideshows are beneficial to Babble. It seems that they annoy readers and, if I am anything to go by, readers often close the site out of frustration, before even finishing the article.
And also, Linus Pauling won a Nobel Prize for his work with Vitamin C. It’s going to take a lot more than a brief Babble post for most readers to think this research has been disproven.
Manjari commented on Jul 02 11 at 8:05 amIf all comments about the slideshows are negative, why continue with them? It wasn’t a good idea, so maybe it’s time to let it go. Your readers don’t like them.
ryan commented on Jul 03 11 at 4:24 amLinus Pauling Won nobel prizes for chemistry and peace.. not Vitamin C. However his work with Vitamin C is not false information like this blog is. Meredith please do your research before you start bashing something that helps people. IF you honestly believe what you posted.. then you shouldn’t be in any position to post informaton whatsoever.
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