Either Tea or Coffee Could Protect You from Stroke and Dementia, But Drink Both Each Day and They’re Even More Effective It stood to reason that tea and coffee, minimally processed plant products dissolved in water, were good for our health. The evidence for the benefit as well as the pleasure they give has accumulated rapidly in recent decades, including that separately each is able to reduce the risk of stroke and of dementia. Now, however, a study shows that the protective power of these two giants of the beverage world is multiplied when they are both consumed. Is this…
Oxidation Is Killing Us. Antioxidants in Foods Can Neutralize the Free Radicals Causing Aging and Disease Antioxidants in foods such as HealthSpan muesli can slow aging and disease There’s a lot of talk – including on these pages! – about the way free radicals age us and promote disease, and even more about the power of certain foods to prevent this damage. So here is an explanation of where free radicals come from, how food can neutralize them and how we can assess the antioxidant capacity of different nutrients. Thousands of phytonutrients, compounds made by plants that have the ability…