Vitamin C Gives Clues On Antioxidants' Abilities

Reuters reported yesterday that some types of cancer could be prevented from growing if treated by Vitamin C.

Studies in mice showed that when treated with Vitamin C, the antioxidants appeared to stifle tumor growth by preventing DNA damage from free radicals.

The types of cancer susceptible to C’s potent anti-cancer properties were cervical and colon cancer.

The goal, said researchers, is to find a way to harness the power of antioxidants by figuring out how they prevent tumors from growing.

Researchers caution the public from going out and ingesting too much Vitamin C, but the irrefutable evidence was there as early as the 1970s that ascorbic acid (C) was able to prevent cancer cell growth.