FREE RADICALS AND ANTI OXIDANTS
Free radicals theory has become more relevant and accepted by medical fraternity. Free radicals are otherwise called reactive oxygen molecules with less one electron in its atom. This is also called as oxygen ions. These free radicals can make cellular damage to body leading to many life style diseases such as diabetis, cardiac diseases, diseases related to other organs ,cancer and even ageing. At some level reactive nitrogen also produced in body. Body generate free radicals always and has a in-built mechanism to scavenge or neutralize these reactive free radicals. But if the production of free radicals are beyond a limit due to many reasons such as stressful life, polluted environment , wrong food habits, many other underlying diseases etc more and more free radicals, like in a nuclear fusion, generated that body can’t manage or handle it by itself.
The role of Anti oxidants come here. There are many anti oxidants such as Vitamin E(Nuts and some oils, mangoes, guava, and other fruits ,Amla ), Vitamin C foods such as (oranges ,green pepper ,lime and other rich foods), Lycopene from tomatoes , Resveratrol from grapes and cocoa , beta- carotene in carrot are rich anti oxidants, that we can add raw in our food to make it anti oxidant rich food. Anti oxidants has the capacity to scavenge or neutralize the ill effect of free radicals
ANTOXID HERB TEA is a good anti oxidant rich tea that you can add in your diet to fight against free radicals
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