Great skin

Healthy, glowing skin needs to be nourished from within. Vitamin C aids in the formation of collagen. Just imagine that your skin cells are protein bricks. The cement that holds them together is collagen. Just as poor cement results in a weak building, weak collagen results in poor-looking skin.

Collagen preserves skin elasticity and firmness, prevents rough, dry skin, and diminishes skin damage from pollution. If your skin has a tendency to bruise easily, it could mean you lack vitamin C.

Lighter periods and allergy relief

If you don't want to feel like you're bleeding to death every month, taking 'vitamin C regularly strengthens capillaries — fragile capillaries are believed to play a role in menorrhagia, or abnormally heavy menstrual flow.

Vitamin C also helps the body to use iron in the blood more efficiently, and helps form new tissues and promotes proper cell growth.

Vitamin C, a natural antihistamine, can also bring some relief to allergy as well as to PMS sufferers too.

No stretch marks!

During pregnancy, additional vitamin C is essential for protecting growing cells from harmful chemicals and air pollution, and for strengthening blood vessels and the immune system.

The growing baby will drain any available vitamin C from its mother. Some expectant mothers, depending on their genetic make-up and emotional status, will need more of the vitamin than others.

Research has shown that women who take more vitamin C during their pregnancy experience less leg cramps and seldom get stretch marks. Their labour is also shorter and less painful.

Calcium enhancer

Osteoporosis is a real concern for women, but many don't realise that calcium alone is not enough — the formation of bones is built on a collagen matrix, and vitamin G is needed for the formation of collagen. Vitamin C is also a calcium enhancer — it helps the body absorb calcium better — along with the nutrients D, K, magnesium, boron and silicon.

So what if some authorities stipulate that an adult woman should take about 500mg of vitamin C daily? Take more. The daily intake for an active woman who lives in the city should be between l,000mg and 2,000mg daily. After all, the body will discharge what it does not use. Far better to have a little extra than too little, too late.

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