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Article: Research: Vitamin E may help athletes recover from muscle damage caused by free radicals.
- Article from:
- Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week
- Article date:
- August 24, 2002
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2002 AUG 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Vitamin E may be able to counter body damage from exercise, the Tufts University Health and Nutrition Letter, a leading advisory publication on improving health, has reported.
Dr. Jennifer Sacheck, an exercise physiologist at Tufts, studied groups of physically active men and found that older people particularly, including very fit seniors, often suffer after exercise from an increase in free radical activity that damages body tissue.
Free radicals in older people "can get out of control after heavy exercise," the Health and Nutrition Letter stated. Part of the solution, the letter said, "may be the antioxidant ...