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Taking vitamin C pills every day doesn't really help prevent colds for most people, according to research.

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Vitamin C for preventing and treating the common cold.

Systematic Review With Meta-Analysis
2007 Jul 18

The study looked at whether taking vitamin C every day prevents colds and found it doesn't really help most people, just like the claim says.

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Vitamin C for preventing and treating the common cold.

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DOI: 10.1002/14651858.cd000980.pub3

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Taking vitamin C pills every day doesn't really help prevent colds for most people, according to studies with thousands of participants.

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Taking vitamin C pills every day might make your colds less severe, according to some studies that looked at healthy people.

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Vitamin C helps reduce bad cold symptoms a lot (by about a quarter), but doesn't really help with mild cold symptoms. This is based on studies of over 2700 colds.

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Taking vitamin C pills might help a little with colds, especially for people who are under a lot of physical stress or don't get enough vitamin C from their diet.

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Taking vitamin C pills might make your cold symptoms less severe if you're a healthy person.

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