Vitamin C, cholesterol, and the nutritional recommendations

Nutrition Discussion Forum

“…In fact, one of the studies cited in the UK recommendations reported that the geometric mean duration of colds was 6.4 days in vitamin C-deprived subjects and 3.3 days in non-deprived subjects, and the authors concluded that the absence of vitamin C tended to cause colds to last longer (Bartley et al 1953). The brief comment on the vitamin C and plasma cholesterol relationship is based on one single uncontrolled study (Department of Health, 1991) although over thirty intervention studies have been published, eleven of which were placebo-controlled (Hemila, 1992b).…”