Vitamin C Content Higher Lower Stroke Risk

Consumption of vitamin C content can be predicted big or small a person is exposed to the possibility of stroke, the results of research involving a group of experts about 20 thousand people and old-age part-elderly people in Norfolk, United Kingdom.

In research that lasted for about ten years 448 cases of stroke occurred among those involved in research projects.

Experts found that they-they have a degree of concentration of vitamin C at the beginning of the most high-risk research has a 42% lower for stroke affected during the period of ten years, compared with those with a concentration of vitamin C content of the low.

Protective effect provided by vitamin C to ward stroke after considering the factors that may influence, among others, age, gender, smoking habits, alcohol drinking habits body mass index, blood pressure, diabetes, heart attack preliminary attack, Feed and social class .

Dr.Pho K. Myint from the University of Cambridge, UK and their colleagues reported the results of research in the medical magazine, The American Journal of Nutrition.

Myint said the concentration of vitamin C content in the blood is one of a bio-consumption of fruits and vegetables provide a lot of food substances that are biologically active and Protective against stroke. Results of research that supports the evidence that a body in the consumption of vegetables and fruits have such a protective effect against stroke. "

In other comments, also associated with vitamin C, Drs. Sebastian J. Padayatty and Mark Levin Institute of the National Health Bethesda, in Maryland, emphasizing fruits and vegetables associated with many health benefits including decreasing the risk of stroke affected.

"We have yet to find out why and how the fruits and vegetables that provide the benefits for the public are encouraged to consumption in many and diverse number of type ," Padayatty and Levin said.

Optimum amount of consumption of fruits and vegetables can reduce the risk of infected heart disease and stroke are still not known, but eat as much as 5 to 9 times the fruit or vegetable dishes every day can provide benefits for health and provide protection for the body to a number of diseases. Because the two types of recommended eat the food as much as possible.