Vitamin C reduced this group's risks of a cold by 50 per cent, noted one of the authors of the report, Harri Hemila of the University of Helsinki. Why should this group see a benefit, but not others?

For them, vitamin C supplementation decreases the incidence of colds by half. These findings, though, do not hold up for ordinary people, Dr. Hemilä emphasized.

In 1970, his best-selling book Vitamin C And The Common Cold was published, claiming everyone’s health could be improved by higher levels of the vitamin. And a huge myth was born.

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