Top 5 Myths about Antioxidant food

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Top 5 Myths about Antioxidant food

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• Antioxidants are compounds that most people know
  nothing about and just do not understand what
  they do how or why. Food manufacturers are quick
  to tell us their products are full of
  antioxidants and many people buy them believing
  they are consuming something that is good for
  them. Antioxidant research shows that the reality
  is not so simple.

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Myth All Free Radicals are Bad

• Antioxidants destroy those nasty free radicals so
  we become healthy youre told, but this is only
  part of the story. So what is the story?
• We need a balance in our bodies antioxidants
  fight free radicals or unstable elements in our
  bodies. These free radicals are a by-product of
  oxidation a basic metabolic process.
• Free radicals are essential to life it only is
  when our bodies have too many that they become a
  problem, when the balance is destroyed, an
  example is that our immune system uses different
  types of free radicals to fight disease and
  mutant cells.

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Myth All Antioxidants are Equal

• Every plant produces antioxidants to help them
  fight off predators and disease that are their
  main role in nature. Our bodies have developed to
  use this ability to its advantage, but each
  antioxidant reacts and is used in a different
  way.
• All the different and there are over 8,000
  different types of known antioxidants are not
  interchangeable in much the same way as vitamin C
  is different to vitamin A or D and they are not
  interchangeable we need them all.
• All molecules that can protect our cells are
  called antioxidants. In the same way that there
  are different antioxidants the are also different
  free radicals and each antioxidant is used by our
  bodies to counter a specific free radical.

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Myth Antioxidants come from Fruits and Vegetables

• All plants contain antioxidants, but so do
  animals that eat them so we get antioxidants for
  all our food sources.

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Myth Antioxidant-Fortified Foods are Healthier

• Antioxidants are molecules or chemical compounds
  that are found in nature. Our bodies rely on
  having a large variety of them on a regular
  basis. Processed foods will only have one or two
  antioxidants of a chemical nature rather than
  from natural sources so are of almost no benefit
  at all and could be detrimental to our systems so
  should be avoided.
• It is far better to get your antioxidants from a
  good selection of fresh natural fruit and
  vegetables

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Myth If I exercise I should take Antioxidant
Supplements

• When you exercise you there is more oxidation
  happening in your body and so there are many more
  free radicals present. Our bodies are very finely
  tuned by nature and if you have a good diet with
  natural foods, then you will benefit from having
  a reasonable amount of free radicals in your
  system. Taking a large number of antioxidants in
  the form of supplements could be detrimental to
  our systems and lessen the benefits we could have
  gained by doing the exercise.

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• There are many myths about antioxidants and free
  radicals, food manufacturing companies exploit
  this lack of common knowledge and try and sell
  their products as being high in antioxidants or
  healthy These types of antioxidants are of very
  little value and we should get them for fresh
  fruits and vegetables.

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