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Article: Vitamin C won't prevent you from catching a cold
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- The Hindustan Times
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- July 18, 2007
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Washington, July 18 -- Popping a Vitamin C pill every time you feel a cold starting isn't such a good idea after all, for a new study has found that you will most probably end up getting the sniffles.
The news comes from an updated review of 30 studies conducted over several decades and including more than 11,000 people who took daily doses of at least 200 milligrams of Vitamin C.
The review, according to the researchers at the Australian National University and the University of Helsinki, also shows that vitamin C (ascorbic acid) does little to reduce the length or severity of a cold.
"It doesn't make sense to ...