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Article: Antioxidants protect against disease--but some healthy foods are surprisingly low in them.
- Article from:
- Women's Health Letter
- Article date:
- November 1, 2006
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You've heard that a healthy diet contains plenty of fruits and vegetables. One reason is that they're packed with nutrients like antioxidants--free-radical fighters that protect against heart disease, cancer, hypertension, type 2-diabetes, cataracts, and other illnesses. But not all fruits and vegetables contain a lot of antioxidants.
In fact, the difference in the amounts of antioxidants in plant foods varies more than 1,000-fold! And while you may think that both fruits and vegetables are high in these protective nutrients, they aren't. One of these groups is not high in them at all.
Which one? The clue may be found in some of the new products flooding ...