Orange Medicine

What are your health goals? Are you trying

to defeat the common cold or burn

fat? It is impossible to focus on both at the same time, right? Nope, have you heard of the essential vitamin, C?

I remember as a little one, my mother always said, “eat some lemons and peppermints if you have a cold boy!” As a child, it was awesome, because the peppermint made the lemon sweeter: no thoughts of why I should eat a lemon in the first place, or what nutrients are in lemons to help me fight off this cold; I just wanted a peppermint, to be honest.

Need help getting over a cold?

Good oh vitamin C, the mystery home remedy for the common cold. Vitamin C essentially is one of the safest and most important vitamins you can take on a daily basis.

Did you know that vitamin C is an antioxidant as well?

Antioxidants are nutrients that fight off free radicals and block some of its damage. It also has an ability to influence tissue growth and repairing ability.

You should eat an orange to get over your cold and simultaneously strengthen your ligaments, tendons, teeth; bones and blood vessels? Sounds like a great deal, right.

What, did I say anything about blood vessels? That’s right, I said,” blood vessels”. Vitamin C helps decrease blood pressure by strengthening the arteries.

Why take Vitamin C

Vitamin C like all nutrients is universal. Everybody needs vitamin C, whether you are elderly, young, an athlete, or an everyday person, just trying to get into shape.

I just found out yesterday that vitamin C is used by bodybuilders to recover from an intense workout! Who knew this shocking info; I didn’t?

Vitamin C helps with protein metabolism, blocking necessary proteins that cause infection and inflammation.

That high blood pressure you may be struggling with; can be reduced with good oh vitamin C. Vitamin C fights off heart disease, strokes and cancer!

Am I Vitamin C Deficient

Are you experiencing any of these vitamin C deficiency symptoms; if so, you may be at a deficit.

• Dry hair and splitting hair

• Dry Skin

• Bleeding gums/ Gingivitis

• Easy bruising

• Nose bleeds

• Painful swollen joints

• Anemia

• Decrease ability to fight infection

• Weight gain

Lose Stomach Fat!

Well let’s get to the most important part that you want to here at least lol; vitamin C will enhance our body ability to burn fat faster!

Adequate vitamin C is essential for proper fat metabolism. Low vitamin C is linked to increased weight gain and higher waist measurement, which is a risk factor for diabetes, heart disease, cancer and much more.

I even read in a research article, that people with low vitamin C tend to have more stomach fat despite overall weight loss!

Even if you are undergoing an intense workout, the body is unable to metabolize fat without vitamin C.

This explains why some individuals do not lose weight despite regular exercise: especially those people that are vitamin C deficient.

Studies prove that you can increase fat loss by approximately 30%, according to the “Journal of the American College of Nutrition” if you have adequate vitamin consumption.

Twenty percent of Americans adults don’t consume enough vitamin C, and therefore prone to an inability to burn fat; maybe there is a correlation with vitamin C deficiency and the obesity influx, who knows!

Let me help you

Below are foods high in vitamin C:

• Orange

• Lemon

• Broccoli

• Red Cabbage

• Red Pepper

• Kiwi

• Tomatoes

• Strawberries

• Blueberries

• Cauliflower

• Brussels sprouts

I want you to follow the info below on proper vitamin C consumption and try to increase your vitamin consumption if you are at a deficit by taking a multivitamin and consuming your 4-6 servings of fruits and vegetables daily, depending on your activity level.

Let’s jumps start this fat loss, meanwhile enhance our health today with proper vitamin C consumption!

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