What You Need To Know About Antioxidants

 

'Antioxidants are substances that help protect your body from free radical damage.
Let’s start off by talking a bit about free radicals…

What are free radicals?

A free radical is a molecule within our bodies that has an unpaired electron in its outer shell. They are unstable and highly reactive. Free radicals cause problems in the body by stealing an electron from a nearby stable molecule. This turns the stable molecule into a free radical and a chain reaction begins. Free radicals contribute to chronic diseases including cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, heart disease and vision loss.'

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Research: Foods/Spices Slow, Perhaps Reverse Alzheimer's

'Back in 2006, a study published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) found that a class of compounds found within turmeric known as curcuminoids enhance the amyloid-beta uptake of macrophages within Alzheimer’s disease patients. Amyloid-beta (Abeta) plaque is found in unnaturally elevated levels in neurodegenerative disorders such as AD, and is believed to contribute to the underlying disease process.'




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Eight of the Worlds Healthiest Spices

 

'Modern science is beginning to uncover the ultimate power of spices and herbs, as weapons against illnesses from cancer to Alzheimer’s disease. “We’re now starting to see a scientific basis for why people have been using spices medicinally for thousands of years,” says Bharat Aggarwal, Ph.D., professor at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and author of the upcoming Healing Spices (Sterling, January 2011). 

Aggarwal notes that in his native India, where spices tend to be used by the handful, incidence of diet-related diseases like heart disease and cancer have long been low. But when Indians move away and adopt more Westernized eating patterns, their rates of those diseases rise.'

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