Antioxidants no help against prostate cancer?

[Guest guest]

Hi, y'all.....

http://www.webmd.com/content/article/118/113103.htm

Mike

[Guest guest]

At 11:50 AM 2/15/2006, you wrote:

>Hi, y'all.....

>

>http://www.webmd.com/content/article/118/113103.htm

>

>Mike

I find the public frenzy over antioxidants to be pretty

amusing, particularly all the products that I'm seeing at the grocery

store that are being advertised as healthy because they are good at making

hydrogen peroxide solutions fizz. In the midst of it all, people have

forgotten what antioxidants are.

Free radicals are chemically unstable molecules that do damage by

reacting with biomolecules such as protein and DNA.

Antioxidants are chemically unstable molecules that react rapidly

with free radicals. Since antioxidants are unstable, it's quite possible

that they also undergo unwanted chemical reactions in the body too. (Even

reactions with other unstable molecules: for instance, nitric oxide is a

hormone that plays an important role in the brain and in regulation of

blood pressure.)

There's no doubt that antioxidants are important for health, but

like everything else, antioxidant benefits should follow an inverted-U

curve: it's silly to add supplements and unlimited quantities of miracle

foods because they were on the news last week.

[Guest guest]

At 11:50 AM 2/15/2006, you wrote:

>Hi, y'all.....

>

>http://www.webmd.com/content/article/118/113103.htm

>

>Mike

I find the public frenzy over antioxidants to be pretty

amusing, particularly all the products that I'm seeing at the grocery

store that are being advertised as healthy because they are good at making

hydrogen peroxide solutions fizz. In the midst of it all, people have

forgotten what antioxidants are.

Free radicals are chemically unstable molecules that do damage by

reacting with biomolecules such as protein and DNA.

Antioxidants are chemically unstable molecules that react rapidly

with free radicals. Since antioxidants are unstable, it's quite possible

that they also undergo unwanted chemical reactions in the body too. (Even

reactions with other unstable molecules: for instance, nitric oxide is a

hormone that plays an important role in the brain and in regulation of

blood pressure.)

There's no doubt that antioxidants are important for health, but

like everything else, antioxidant benefits should follow an inverted-U

curve: it's silly to add supplements and unlimited quantities of miracle

foods because they were on the news last week.