Why Do Our Body Needs Antioxidants?

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Why Do Our Body Needs Antioxidants?

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• Our bodies have natural healing abilities that
  work when we have a healthy nutritious diet.
  Nature has provided many compounds that help keep
  us healthy and a diet rich in antioxidant food is
  a sure way to help our bodys cells to face
  everyday threats such as infections and viruses
  attacking them. Antioxidants help give our immune
  system a boost and allow it to do its job of
  protecting our bodies.

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• Eating a diet made using antioxidant recipes
  allows our body to neutralize free radicals that
  damage our cells and DNA. Some damaged cells can
  be repaired by antioxidants while others are just
  neutralized.

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• Scientists believe that molecules called free
  radicals are contributing factors in the aging
  process. They are also thought to play a large
  part in diseases, like diabetes, cancer and heart
  disease.
• Antioxidants are chemical compounds that can help
  stop or limit much of the damage caused by free
  radicals. Antioxidants are used by our bodies to
  balance free radicals. Free radicals are formed
  as a by-product of our bodies metabolizing food.

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The Path to improved health

• Free radicals can be natural or man-made, as well
  as chemicals our body produces as part of the
  process of turning food into energy.
• Your body produces some antioxidants and you get
  them from certain foods and vitamins. Common
  antioxidants include
• Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin E, lycopene,
  selenium, lutein, beta-carotene.
• Most antioxidant food is obtained by eating a
  healthy diet, which contains a mixture of
  colourful fruits and vegetables.

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• Vitamin A is found in dairy foods, eggs, and
  liver.
• Vitamin C is found in fruits and vegetables such
  as berries, plums, kiwis, oranges, paw paw and
  melons, vegetables such as broccoli, Brussels
  sprouts, kale, bell peppers, tomatoes and
  cauliflower.
• Vitamin E is found almonds, hazelnuts, sunflower
  seeds and peanuts, green leafy vegetables such as
  spinach and kale. You can find it in sunflower,
  soybean and corn, oils.

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• Beta-carotene is found in brightly colored
  vegetables and fruits, like stone fruit, pawpaw,
  mangoes, melons, broccoli, squash, carrots, peas,
  sweet potatoes, spinach, and kale.
• Lycopene is found in pink and red fruits and
  vegetables like watermelon plums, pink
  grapefruit, apricots and tomatoes.
• Lutein is found in green leafy vegetables such as
  kale, spinach, collards and in broccoli, peas,
  paw paw, corn and oranges.
• Selenium is found in grains like corn, wheat, and
  rice as well as animal products, like, chicken,
  turkey, beef, eggs, fish, nuts, legumes, and
  cheese.

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Things to consider

• Antioxidants foods alone do not prevent chronic
  conditions, but having a diet rich in antioxidant
  recipes to go along with other healthy foods,
  giving you a well-balanced diet is a sure way to
  assist your body in coping with the stress of
  modern life.

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