{"id":620,"date":"2022-03-26T07:00:38","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T18:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/?p=620"},"modified":"2022-03-25T10:41:14","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T21:41:14","slug":"mythconceptions-about-colds-and-vitamin-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/?p=620","title":{"rendered":"Mythconceptions About Colds and Vitamin C"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-622 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Vitamin-C-image-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Foods with Vitamin C\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Vitamin-C-image-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Vitamin-C-image-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Vitamin-C-image-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Vitamin-C-image-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Vitamin-C-image-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>You know those mega doses of vitamin C you&#8217;re supposed to take to fight off a cold?<\/p>\n<p>I guess you can file them away with the 64 ounces of water we were told to drink every day, Egg Beaters, and diet sodas.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do you need ongoing food sources of vitamin C? Yes.<\/li>\n<li>Do you need to carpet bomb your system with it? No.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Preventing colds is more of a long term thing. Laughing daily helps. Mindful behaviors help. Eating real food, mostly veg, in control &#8230; it helps!<\/p>\n<p>And oh, this turns out to be basic tenets of a Mediterranean lifestyle approach to wellness.<\/p>\n<p>In case A) you made it to the bottom of this article (congrats, btw!), and B) you run out of things to do in your day,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.harvard.edu\/cold-and-flu\/can-vitamin-c-prevent-a-cold\">here&#8217;s a simple summary from Harvard School of Public Health<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carpet bombing your system with mega doses of Vitamin C doesn&#8217;t do exactly what the marketers of those products claim. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-nutrition"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Vitamin-C-image-scaled.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9kBci-a0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":624,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions\/624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}