If you take a reasonable amount of vitamin C regularly, the incidence of the common cold goes down. If you get a cold and start immediately, as soon as you start sneezing and sniffling, the cold just doesn't get going.
AwardsNobel Peace Prize; Guggenheim Fellowship; Roebling Medal; Nobel Prize In Chemistry; Humanist Of The Year; Gandhi Peace Award; Willard Gibbs Award; NAS Award In Chemical Sciences