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Oxidation Is Killing Us. Antioxidants in Foods Can Neutralize the Free Radicals Causing Aging and Disease

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…