Anti-oxidents in vegetables.?

104>As anti-oxidents have been proved to be the best way to safeguard against many diseases such as cancer and disabilities such as macular degeneration, people should take note that by eating a more vegetarian styled diet they could enhance their wellbeing. All sufferers of age related macular degeneration are told by doctors to eat vegetables rich in anti-oxidents.


This is one area of food intake I knew nothing about until I got AMD. I now eat a more vegetarian diet nowadays and my health has improved. My cholestrol has come right down to below the acceptable level.


I doubt the population at large knows anything about anti-oxidents. Perhap`s the government should take this on board and educate people in better ways of eating. People will eat what they want or like but it´s about choice.
Reply:Ah, such wonderful answers! It's good that you're seeing what an important role nutrition has in our health. I am still just learning and could real about this stuff every day.





I do think it is absolutely horrible that the government doesn't do more to promote good nutrition or hold accountable those that push unhealthy foods on the public. Doing neither of those things is disaster waiting to happen. Oh, wait, it already is happening.





You would really enjoy the book, The China Study, I think.





I try to eat dark berries a few times a week and I love, love, love steamed artichokes, which are supposed to be the highest concentration of antioxidants in any vegetable (according to the advertising, but I haven't looked into it).





Hooray for spreading good info about healthy nutrition and encouraging others to share with you their knowledge about the subject! You, sir, get a gold star.
Reply:Is there a question here?
Reply:As a vegetarian I can attest to the benefits of a 70% - 80% raw fruit and vegetable diet and its role in re-generating health.





Politics is financed by businesses and these businesses make money by selling meat and drugs, etc.





Asking the Governement to promote a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle (regardless of the benefits) is asking them to cut themselves off from their source of funding... it is not going to happen.





YOU can encourage those in your circle, who can then encourage those in their circles until the knowledge is freely available. BUT for a healthy DIET to become commonplace requires a major change in the way people think as well as their value system.





Right now, it is profitable to eat junk, regardless of how short sighted it might be.





Getting people to 'see' the benefits of a healthy diet is almost as much of a challenge as it is to get them to think about their religion.
Reply:Yes, antioxidants are generally thought of as a "good thing" in the body. Your body produces antioxidants naturally, but I believe with the chemicals we put into our body now-a-days that it is difficult for the body to compensate for all the excess radicals. Radicals can be dangerous. For example, We need oxidation reactions to live. But products can be harmful if left unchecked. The body usually takes care of this on it's own but combined with the consumption in food and drink we may be doing more sometimes than the body can cover alone. Radicals are numerous in type and structure when it comes to human bodies and can infact lead to damage to cells or cell death. However, this is a balance that in a perfect example such as elemental oxygen leads us to a paradox. We are simply doomed without a constant supply of oxygen in our blood, but free elemental oxygen in the blood is destructive and is infact considered a poison. It's funny really the very thing that sustains life is considered a deadly element to us. If left unchecked it can damage us. Oxygen is but one example that has physiologic properties of both life and death. This can be attributed to it's "oxidative" properties on the very fragile human homeostasis. Antioxidants can sometimes be seen as the counter part or balancer of an oxidation reaction by acting as the reduction.





Antioxidants are found in many of the natural foods we eat and I like to think that they are helpful to us in well being, but I reserve the verdict of overpacking the body with these agents for fear that not in moderation they too can be overdone.
Reply:“Cranberry juice has a long and distinguished history,” says The Times of London. “It had a great reputation both as a medicine and as a drink among Native Americans [and] had been used by American sailors to ward off scurvy.” Rich in vitamin C and antioxidants, “cranberry juice also has antimicrobial qualities, which makes it especially effective in combating urinary-tract infections. can't think of anything else.

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