Vitamin C reduces infections - Goodnews: essential natural health news; helicobacter pylori - Brief Article

A new study suggests that regular intake of ascorbic acid--or vitamin C--may lower your risk of becoming infected with Helicobacter pylori, the bacteria behind peptic ulcers and stomach cancer.

Study participants with the highest blood levels of vitamin C had a 25 percent lower prevalence of infection with H. pylori.

The jury is out on whether low vitamin C levels are merely one symptom of H. pylori infection--or whether low levels of C lead to the infection in the first place. Either way, you may want to maintain a diet high in vitamin C.

The research was published in the August 2003 issue of the Journal of American College Nutrition.

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