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All You Need To Know: Antioxidants
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And guys, the really good news is that many antioxidants like lycopene becomes even easier for your body to absorb when they are processed. So not all processed foods are bad. And for any of you heavy drinkers out there, antioxidants (like lycopene) have been found to stop cell death in alcoholics.
What you need to remember
“Eat your fruits and vegetables." It’s pretty cliché by this point, but there is scientific evidence for it. Fruits and vegetables can help prevent heart disease, cancer, control blood pressure, vision loss and intestinal problems.
You should be consuming between 3-5 cups per day (potatoes don’t count) and so there is no confusion 1 cup is roughly the equivalent of a measuring cup. If the fruits and vegetables are dried, then ½ a cup is roughly equal to one cup. Keep fruit and veggies within eyesight. This will encourage you to eat them, this will also help you incorporate them into every meal.
Try new fruits and vegetable that you may not have had before. You just might find something new that you really like. Happy health.
References
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2. BN Ames, MK Shigenaga, and TM Hagen Oxidants, Antioxidants, and the Degenerative Diseases of Aging doi:10.1073/pnas.90.17.7915 PNAS 1993;90;7915-7922 Feb 2007
3. Bokova, Chaudhurib, Richardsonc,d,e, Review The role of oxidative damage and stress in aging, Department of Physiology, University of Texas Health Mechanisms of Ageing and Development 125 (2004) 811–826
4. C.K.B. Ferrari *, E.A.F.S. Torres Biochemical pharmacology of functional foods and prevention of chronic diseases of aging Received 19 June 2002; accepted 18 July 2002
5. David Heber and Qing-Yi Lu Mechanisms of Action of Lycopene, Experimental Biology and Medicine 227:920-923 (2002);
6. Sengupta A, Ghosh S, Das RK, Bhattacharjee S, Bhattacharya S. Chemopreventive potential of diallylsulfide, lycopene and theaflavin during chemically induced colon carcinogenesis in rat colon through modulation of cyclooxygenase-2 and inducible nitric oxide Eur J Cancer Prev. 2006 Aug;15(4):301-5.
7. List of Antioxidants in food March 17, 2007 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_antioxidants_in_food
8. Xu Y, Leo MA, Lieber CS. Lycopene attenuates alcoholic apoptosis in HepG2 cells expressing CYP2E1. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2003 Aug 29;308(3):614-8.
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