What's All The Buzz About Antioxidants?

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What’s All The Buzz About Antioxidants?

Filed under: health and nutrition; Tagged as: Anti Oxidants, antioxidants, Diets, Exercise, free radicals, health, Natural Fruits, nutrition, Nuts, Oxidation Process

It seems like everywhere we look, people are talking about antioxidants and how many are in their product. So what do we need them for?

Ever heard of “free radicals”? Our bodies are bombarded with them all day everyday. Free radicals are caused by the oxidative process. We see this process in things like iron which rusts – that’s oxidation. It’s caused when a molecule has an unpaired electron. This happens in our bodies also. It’s an oxidation process that leaves a molecule unbalanced – it only has one electron. Enter anti-oxidants. Antioxidants pair up with the single electron and repair the damage to that molecule. That’s great you say – so just eat and drink a lot of food with antioxidants.

It’s been said that standing on a street corner when a bus passes by exposes you to more “free radicals” in that 30 seconds than our ancestors encountered in a lifetime. They were eating diets loaded with natural fruits and nuts that hadn’t been processed and loaded up with fats, salts and sugars. In other words their diets were far superior to ours AND they also got much more exercise than most of us do.

Wow! That’s a lot of free radicals to counteract. We actually get hit with about 10 QUINTILLION per day. Every day. Sounds like we have our work cut out for us. So let’s get started.

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2 responses to “What’s All The Buzz About Antioxidants?”

Cole Powell June 17th, 2010 at 01:43

free radicals are dangerous because they can cause cancer.”.”
Scotty Valentin May 15th, 2010 at 04:28

Hi! I just now read your article and We loved it. I was curious if you are intending to create more posts to go in conjunction with this blog?