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This article was originally published in the November 2004 issue of Zone Net
Supplementing your diet with extra antioxidants is crucial to our bodies and our immune systems during times when we are more likely to come into contact with cold or flu viruses in packed shopping malls or other public places . Just what exactly are antioxidants? Well, antioxidants are essentially natural compounds that protect our bodies from free radical damage to our cells. This destructive process is called oxidation. Just like many metals oxidize and then rust, our own bodies tend to do
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Did you know that when we breath oxygen, it interacts with certain molecules in our bodies to create free radicals and that these free radicals damage important cellular structures such as DNA and cell membranes? Well, it is true and this damage may cause cells to function poorly and mutate. Free radical damage may lead to disease and aging.We are exposed to huge amounts of free radicals from pollution, and pesticides. Every time you breathe, you take in millions of free radical molecules created by cigarette smoke, radiation, and automobile emissions. Every time you eat, you consume free radicals in
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Copyright 2005 Linda Slater Dowling
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Are you making the mistake of not eating enough antioxidants in your diet? I mean really, what is the harm? What, that is, aside from early aging, heart disease, cancer, and a host of other illnesses.
As someone who is concerned about your health, you should be very much aware of the foods you put into your body. But how many of us actually are?
If your health strategy is simply to eat what you want and hope for the best, you may be planting the seeds of your own future illnesses.
Antioxidants help to fight free radicals. But what are free radicals
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Everyone has heard the news about antioxidants and their
importance to good health and proper nutrition. It seems the
more scientists learn about antioxidants, the more their value
and potential increases. Antioxidants have shown promise in
everything from preventing heart disease to slowing the
degeneration of the eyes and brain.
Antioxidants work in a fairly straightforward way. What makes
them so effective is their ability to neutralize a group of
highly reactive, highly destructive compounds known as free
radicals.
The production of free radicals is a normal bodily process, and
it is part of the process of breathing and living. Free radicals
are normally neutralized by the body's natural defense system,
rendering
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