Antioxidants are originates in foods that are rich in colors like:
grapes dark in color
grapefruit that is red in color
dark green leafy vegetables
Broccoli
Beets
green beans
peas that are green in color
vegetables like yams, carrots, and dark orange squashes that are dark orange
acai berry fruit
You should look for the fruits that are darker in color. The compounds that guard your cells from the various types of oxygen species that occur naturally and damage your body are found in antioxidants. Some of these oxygen species are:
singlet oxygen
super oxide species
peroxyl radicals
hydroxyl radical species
peroxynitrite radicals
When the body has an inadequate amount of antioxidants, these free radicals are able to run free until they create what is known as oxidative stress, which is very significant to cellular damage to the body. If left untreated, this cellular damage eventually leads to aging and later to disease. Antioxidants is the body's answer to defend itself from the cellular damage done by these various types of harmful free radicals.
Free radicals take place from sources mutually inside (endogenous) and outside (exogenous) our bodies. Oxidants that build up from these processes contained by our bodies form as a result of:
the natural aerobic respiration
metabolism
inflamed joints
The body produces these free radicals by:
Breathing air
digesting food
second hand smoke exposure
sun
These damaging free radicals are extremely reactive and leave the body open to:
all types of cancer
heart disease
other degenerative diseases
Studies suggest that these powerful pigments possess anti-inflammatory and anti-aging properties to fight and prevent these free radicals from damaging the body. Of the 150 different flavonoids found in plants, the acai berry appears to have the greatest antioxidant capacity. Studies have suggested that the antioxidants that occur naturally in fresh fruits and vegetables have a protective effect.
For example, vitamin E and beta-carotene appear to guard cell membranes; vitamin C removes free radicals from inside the cell. Studies have also been conducted that also show a link between free radicals and degenerative diseases associated with aging, such as:
Alzheimers
Cataracts of the eyes
stroke
macular degeneration
Antioxidants, however, stop the chain-reaction and prevent or slow the oxidation process in our body. Antioxidants are compounds of many different chemical structures and are classified into two broad divisions, depending on whether they are soluble in water (hydrophilic) or in lipids (hydrophobic).
In general, water-soluble antioxidants react with oxidants in the cell cytoplasm and the blood plasma, while lipid-soluble antioxidants protect cell membranes from lipid peroxidation.
Foods like the acai berry that are rich in antioxidants have been shown in many studies to slow, stop the progress of, and, in some cases, even turn around the effects of aging caused by free radical damage. Antioxidants enhance our immunity, build our muscles stronger, and maintain our bones as well as keep our skin healthy. - 16463
grapes dark in color
grapefruit that is red in color
dark green leafy vegetables
Broccoli
Beets
green beans
peas that are green in color
vegetables like yams, carrots, and dark orange squashes that are dark orange
acai berry fruit
You should look for the fruits that are darker in color. The compounds that guard your cells from the various types of oxygen species that occur naturally and damage your body are found in antioxidants. Some of these oxygen species are:
singlet oxygen
super oxide species
peroxyl radicals
hydroxyl radical species
peroxynitrite radicals
When the body has an inadequate amount of antioxidants, these free radicals are able to run free until they create what is known as oxidative stress, which is very significant to cellular damage to the body. If left untreated, this cellular damage eventually leads to aging and later to disease. Antioxidants is the body's answer to defend itself from the cellular damage done by these various types of harmful free radicals.
Free radicals take place from sources mutually inside (endogenous) and outside (exogenous) our bodies. Oxidants that build up from these processes contained by our bodies form as a result of:
the natural aerobic respiration
metabolism
inflamed joints
The body produces these free radicals by:
Breathing air
digesting food
second hand smoke exposure
sun
These damaging free radicals are extremely reactive and leave the body open to:
all types of cancer
heart disease
other degenerative diseases
Studies suggest that these powerful pigments possess anti-inflammatory and anti-aging properties to fight and prevent these free radicals from damaging the body. Of the 150 different flavonoids found in plants, the acai berry appears to have the greatest antioxidant capacity. Studies have suggested that the antioxidants that occur naturally in fresh fruits and vegetables have a protective effect.
For example, vitamin E and beta-carotene appear to guard cell membranes; vitamin C removes free radicals from inside the cell. Studies have also been conducted that also show a link between free radicals and degenerative diseases associated with aging, such as:
Alzheimers
Cataracts of the eyes
stroke
macular degeneration
Antioxidants, however, stop the chain-reaction and prevent or slow the oxidation process in our body. Antioxidants are compounds of many different chemical structures and are classified into two broad divisions, depending on whether they are soluble in water (hydrophilic) or in lipids (hydrophobic).
In general, water-soluble antioxidants react with oxidants in the cell cytoplasm and the blood plasma, while lipid-soluble antioxidants protect cell membranes from lipid peroxidation.
Foods like the acai berry that are rich in antioxidants have been shown in many studies to slow, stop the progress of, and, in some cases, even turn around the effects of aging caused by free radical damage. Antioxidants enhance our immunity, build our muscles stronger, and maintain our bones as well as keep our skin healthy. - 16463
About the Author:
For 30 years, Dr. Jerimiah Crossderd has studied the benefits of antioxidants on the human body. He currently has an acai berry web site where there is a wealth of information on the berry with the highest concentration of antioxidants known to man. He also has a free acai berry advisory site to advise on the best acai supplements on the market today and which ones to avoid.
