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Which antioxidant vitamins may help in warding off cataracts?
Much interest has been focused on the use of antioxidant supplements as a protection against cataracts. Antioxidant vitamins such as vitamins A, C, E and beta-carotene help the body clean-up oxygen-free radicals.
What is the alternative therapy that encourages the use of certain vitamins to neutralize free radicals?
Antioxidants
What is a plant compound with the ability to stabilize free radicals?
naringin
What antioxidant is good at attacking free radicals from smoking and pollution?
cocoa
Wy do you need vitamin c?
Natural antioxidant. Diminshs the spread of free-radicals.
How can BHT prolong the shelf life of food?
BHT is a free radical inhibitor. I removes free radicals by reacting with them.BHT is used as a food additive because it is an antioxidant.
What is a non-nutritive substance that acts as an antioxidant to fight free radicals and benefits health?
Phytochemicals
Why antioxidant levels decrease in the epilepsy patients?
When free radicals build up and causedestructionof nerve cells which leads to the seizures. Antioxidants bind to free radicals preventing them fromdestroyingcells and in turn preventing seizures. Some epilepticpatientshaveelevatedlevels of free radicals.
Why are vitamins C and E levels high in sports performance food bars?
vitamin c is a vital nutrient that is required for growth and tissue repair and is also an antioxidant. vitamin e is required for normal reproduction. vitamin e also is an antioxidant and neutralizes free radicals in the body.
Which two antioxidant nutrients actively scavenge and quench free radicals in the body include?
Vitamin E and C
Do Antioxidants contribute to good health by reacting with vitamins?
False.... Answer is free radicals
What are antioxidants?
According to the American Heritage Dictionary an antioxidant is a molecule that inhibits oxidation, which produces free radicals, which damages or kills cells, which are the building blocks of body. Antioxidants neutralize free radicals by giving them one of their own electrons. The antioxidant molecules don't become free radicals themselves by losing an electron because they are stable in either form (oxidized or reduced). They act as scavengers, helping to prevent cell and tissue damage that could lead to disease. Your cells produce the antioxidant enzymes glutathione, catalase, superoxide dismutase (SOD), and some others which neutralize free radicals naturally in the cell, but due to oxidative stress, your body may not be able to produce enough of these enzymes, especially as you age. Vitamins C and E, carotenoids and selenium are antioxidants.
