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Article: Growing old healthfully: are antioxidants the answer?
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- Environmental Nutrition
- Article date:
- January 1, 1992
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Diseases like heart disease, cataracts and cancer seem to be a natural consequence of advancing age. Or are they?
"The fact that we are living longer reduces our [immune] defenses and increases our risk of disease," says Huber R. Warner, Ph.D., director of molecular biology at the National Institute on Aging. Now, there is reason to believe that some people may be able to grow old without developing chronic diseases. Antioxidant vitamins which fight free radicals may be the answer.
Countering the Threat of Free Radicals. A decade of research has began to shed light on a possible cause of age-related diseases that are caused by the cumulative damage ...