Keeping free radicals at bay
Free radical attacks increase our risk of many diseases, including heart disease and cancer. We know that eating foods rich in antioxidants as well as antioxidant supplementation can reduce these free radical attacks. Dr. Steve Chaney points out the effect of a poor diet on the body’s production of free radicals.
Low fat vs. low carbohydrate?
With all this talk about whether low fat or low
carbohydrate meals are better, we tend to loose sight
of the fact that the average American diet is high in
both fat and carbohydrates. Almost anything is better
than that.One of the reasons that high fat, high carbohydrate
meals are so harmful is that they dramatically increase
the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS),
otherwise known as free radicals.Moreover, new research shows that high fat, high
carbohydrate diets are particularly harmful to the
obese.Dr. Paresh Dandona from the University of Buffalo
recently published a study in the Journal of Clinical
Endocrinology and Metabolism in which he looked at free
radical production over a period of three hours after
the consumption of a Big Mac, large order of French
fries, a large Coke and apple pie (an 1,800-calorie
meal composed of 62 percent carbohydrate, 30 percent
fat and 8 percent protein).The results showed that free radicals increased
significantly in both groups at 2 hours, but continued
to increase at 3 hours in the obese subjects, while
levels dropped to baseline in the normal weight
subjects.A MacDonald’s “Happy Meal” is not good news for your
health under the best of conditions, but apparently
it’s even worse if you are overweight.Previous studies have shown that consumption of
vitamin E or other antioxidants along with this type of
meal significantly decreases free radical production.I would not suggest for a minute that antioxidants can
offset the bad effects of obesity and poor diets on our
health, but this is one of the many reasons why I
recommend vitamin E and other antioxidant supplements
as part of an optimal health program.
Steve Chaney
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Charles
May 31st, 2008 at 12:50 am
We are constantly affected by a toxic harmful substances known as “free radicals.” The substances that have antioxidant properties may function to protect us against these harmful substances. There are many vitamins — vitamin C, vitamin E, beta-carotene (a form of vitamin A) and vitamin B2 — that possess possible health-promoting benefits due to their antioxidant properties.