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Why Antioxidants Vitamins?
If, say 30 years ago, you had asked a top medical
scientist to tell you what the items in the following list had in
common, he or she would have been hard pressed to give you an answer
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Today we have the answer. All these conditions are
either caused or contributed to by free radicals. Free radicals can
do you a lot of harm. If your body fails to combat them effectively,
they will kill you. We now know that in most of the major diseases
that kill people prematurely or ruin the quality of their lives, the
actual bodily damage is caused by free radicals.
These short-lived but enormously damaging chemical groups are
constantly attacking body proteins, carbohydrates, fats and DNA,
causing potentially serious damage unless checked. In this sense,
the body really is a battlefield. Scientists believe that, on
average, every cell in your body suffers around 10,000 free radical
hits each day. And each of these hits can set up a chain reaction
that can kill a cell. Needless to say, the body strikes back, as we
shall see. There is no way you can avoid free radicals, but there is
a lot you can do cut down the numbers produced in your body and to
ensure that the maximum number of those that are produced are
neutralized before they can do you harm.
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