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Article: Fitness and free radicals. (using antioxidants and lower-intensity exercise to combat free radicals in the body)
- Article from:
- Medical Update
- Article date:
- September 1, 1994
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In 1968, Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper published his best-selling book, Aerobics, and spearheaded a nationwide health and fitness revolution. Now, 11 ground-breaking books later, this foremost authority on exercise and disease prevention is at it again.
Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper's Antioxidant Revolution, to be released this fall, goes a step beyond Dr. Cooper's other books, delving into the world of atomic particles to analyze what may be the next great revolution in medical science: the control of free oxygen radicals using antioxidants.
For more than 40 years, scientists have been studying the effects of these unstable oxygen molecules on the human body. Now, ...