This only works when fresh fruits and vegetables high in vitamin C are eaten, not with vitamin C supplements.

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When Finnish researchers looked at studies involving nearly 300,000 people over 10 years, they found that taking more than 700 milligrams of C supplements daily reduced the risk of cardiovascular disease by 25 percent.

Still another study showed that it took just a short time for vitamin A and C supplements to reduce abnormal cell proliferation in the colons of people who had had cancer.