Increased recommended dietary Vitamin C could help reduce heart disease, stroke, cancer

Monday, July 16, 2012 - 14:00 in Health & Medicine

The recommended dietary allowance, or RDA, of vitamin C is less than half what it should be, scientists argue in a recent report, because medical experts insist on evaluating this natural, but critical nutrient in the same way they do pharmaceutical drugs and reach faulty conclusions as a result. At higher levels, it could help prevent serious diseases, they say.

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