Anti-oxidants are a group substances which protect fabrics, warrants and other important components such as DNA against the destroying strength of oxygen.
You thought that oxygen was only well? This gas proves to be a dangerous friend.
When burning of fats and carbohydrates, processes using oxygen, there will be oxygen hold by-products. Free radicals are formed.
These molecules contain too few electrons, which they try desperately swallow from everything what is available.
Too often this is DNA, important endosperms, LDL-cholesterol and even cells.
Free radicals and oxidising substances also are available in air you inhale, food you eat and water you drink.
In cigarette smoke they are present in large quantities. Sunlight that heats the skin or touches the eyes, also forms free radicals.
Anti-oxidants are able to neutralise free radicals. Nowadays the term anti-oxidant is generally used for vitamin C, vitamin E, Bètacaroteen and other Carotenoïden, as well as selenium and mangaan. In reality there probably are hundreds anti-oxidanten in our food.
We nearly certain know that anti-oxidants, minerals, fibres and other substances as in vegetables and fruit together contribute to the prevention of cancer, heart sicknesses, diverticulose, grey stare and all kinds of other chronic sicknesses.
The anti-oxidants in food make those free radicals in the body come harmless.
Free radicals are substances which smoke normally arisen and but extra much in the stofwisseling at, exuberant exhibition to sunlight and by penetrating sickness procreators (bacteria and viruses). If they are abundantly present, the free radicals damage the body warrants.
This process oxidatie is called. Rusting a nail and the bruin becomes of an apple is also examples of oxidatie. Flavonoïden are anti-oxidanten. It are substances which seem on vitamins, but not real is.
Flavonoïden prevention especially in vegetable and fruit and also in tea and red wine. Other feeding substances with antioxidant functioning; vitamins C, E and caroteen and the mineral seleen.
Anti-oxidants protects against heart sicknesses, reduce ageing and help with the convalescence of cold and infectie.
New American research shows that Americans get down their antioxidanten not particularly by means of fruit and vegetables, but by means of coffee. It has been confessed that these substances protect the human body against detrimental influences and repair damaged warrants.
Especially red fruit such as cherries, currants and red grapes and vegetables as tomatoes contain anti-oxidants.
It has been confessed that coffee contains also these substances. From Japanese research became clear that people who never drink coffee have two times more chance of liver cancer.
The American research workers repeat that we better not start to drink litres coffee. In the longer term and at larger quantities problems as insomnia can arise. Also the risk of infestation of hearts and blood barrels. They prefere vegetables and fruit because there are also vitamins, minerals and fibres within.
Of chocolate PURELY your bloodpressure will get lower. This is written in an research by the university of bunch barrel. For two weeks twenty people with high bloodpressure have got a diet of chocolate. A half got pure, the other half white chocolate.
Only pure chocolate ensures blood very lowering. Pure chocolate contains flavonoïde (not in white).
Flavonoïden are a large group of vegetable substances. Till now more than 4000 types flavonoïden have been described. Flavonoïden are antioxidants that the make the veins fuller, keeps the structure of the blood barrels protected and healthy.
Also the substance protects the body against detrimental processes which arise by inhaling oxygen and substances such as the free radicals.
Flavonoïden sit also in seasons, soya, red wine, fruit, green tea, pod fruit apples, broccoli, farmer cabbage, blue grapes, onions, root, tomatoes, oranges, sprauts and garlic. For this reason it is important that we eat many of these vegetables and fruit.
The American scientists are warning that pure chocolate can be indeed healthy, but donīt eat to much, it contains sugar and a lot of calories. And overweight is bad for hearts and blood barrels. Date 21-07-2005
23 March 2006 WAGENINGEN Netherlands - raspberries are enormously healthy. They contain much more healthy substances than for example tomatoes, kiwi ' s and broccoli.
That letter Wageningse scientists in the illustrated magazine BioFactors. The scientists have listed all health promoting properties of the raspberry. The fruit appears to contain a medicinal substance, which has been so far found in absolutely no other foodstuff in those quantities. Probably the substance prevents also in some medicinal Chinese seasons.
Beside the medicinal substance raspberries contain by gramme ten times more protecting anti-oxidants than tomatoes. Anti-oxidants neutralise aggressive molecules in the body and prevent for cell damage.
Expensive
The disadvantage of raspberries is, the fruit is very expensive and only in small quantities on the market.