{"id":611912,"date":"2009-12-17T20:36:55","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T01:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/?p=136226"},"modified":"2009-12-17T20:36:55","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T01:36:55","slug":"high-vit-c-may-up-cataract-risk-in-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/611912","title":{"rendered":"High Vit. C May Up Cataract Risk in Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moderation is the key in almost anything and with vitamins, it&#8217;s no exception. For the most part, people who spend a lot of money on vitamins just end\u00a0 up with expensive urine, but sometimes too much of a vitamin can cause problems. Researchers in Sweden found such a problem among 25,000 women who took vitamin C.<\/p>\n<p>The recommended daily allowance of vitamin C is 45 mg per day, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) and 60 mg to 95 mg pe<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-136227 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images1.blisstree.com\/files\/2009\/12\/vitamins2.jpg?resize=205%2C307\" alt=\"pills\" width=\"205\" height=\"307\" \/>r day, according to the United States&#8217; National Academy of Sciences. The researchers, who published their findings in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajcn.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/ajcn.2009.28528v1\"><em>Journal of Clinical Nutrition<\/em><\/a>, looked at 24,593 women aged 49 to 83 years old, for a little over eight years. The goal was to look at age-related cataracts and the researchers were looking at <em>supplemental vitamin C<\/em> use, not vitamin C that was taken in through diet.<\/p>\n<p>Among the almost 25,000 women, there were 2,497 cases of cataracts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>878 cataracts were removed from the 9,973 women who did not take any supplements<\/li>\n<li>252 cataracts were removed from the 2,259 women who took multivitamins only<\/li>\n<li>143 cataracts were removed from the <span>1,225 women who took vitamin C only<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>The researchers also found that women who were older and taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT), as well as taking vitamin C had a higher risk of developing cataracts as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span>~~~<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Post from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\">Blisstree<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/articles\/high-vit-c-may-up-cataract-risk-in-women\/\">High Vit. C May Up Cataract Risk in Women<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moderation is the key in almost anything and with vitamins, it&#8217;s no exception. For the most part, people who spend a lot of money on vitamins just end\u00a0 up with expensive urine, but sometimes too much of a vitamin can cause problems. Researchers in Sweden found such a problem among 25,000 women who took vitamin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2zby","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}