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Alright, so everyone knows how great antioxidants are right? You see antioxidant supplements and the health benefits advertised all over the place. Fortunately, unlike the majority of “trendy” health products, this one actually has some truth behind it.

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Good for you, yes?
Absolutely. Antioxidants are extremely good for you in a number of ways.
They fight free-radicals, slow the aging process, make you feel younger, prevent cancer, heart disease and many other diseases. Now if you still do not think that antioxidants are cool then check this out, they will also help your body recover faster and more efficiently from that intense workout you just had.

Now why is that a good thing?
Well the faster you recover from your workout, the quicker you can get back into the gym, the harder you can exercise, the faster you will see results.

So how do they aid in recovery?
When you exercise, your body produces all sorts of free-radicals that can start to damage your muscle tissue. Antioxidants help to stop the production of those free-radicals during your workout. Now for this to have the greatest effect you should aim at getting a boost in antioxidants about an hour or so before your workout. This will greatly reduce any damage done to the muscles from those nasty free-radicals, your muscles will recover mush better, and in turn, you will see better results. That’s got to be a good thing.

Now there are no scare tactics at play here. You don’t have to rush to the green grocer right now to grab a bag full of blueberries because you won’t tone up if you don’t. Not at all.
What I am saying however, is that it can help.

Muscle Recovery
Most of us know the effects of over working your muscles. It can be detrimental if you do not give your body enough time to recover. Think of recovery as the growing stage, your muscle fibres repair themselves and grow bigger and stronger. If your aim is muscle growth, then recovery is one of the most important parts, and if you can not stay away from the gym for very long, then any extra help with recovery is essential. Antioxidants can help.

Yes, there are a number of post-workout supplements on the market that aid in recovery, some are good, many are not. I’ve always been a strong believer that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. That is why I like to get some antioxidants into me about an hour or so before my workout. Obviously this can be a bit of a hassle if you are an early riser and early exerciser, and if you are like me and your memory is not so hot, you can simply forget. But for all those times where you do get some extra antioxidants into you pre-workout, you will start to notice better muscle recovery, and better overall results, regardless of your fitness goals.

Antioxidants from Whole Foods
Some of the greatest antioxidants can be found in some yummy whole foods which could be ideal to snack on before your big workout. The usual ones are berries, such as blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, blackberries, cranberries, and cherries. Acai fruit is really good, and also green tea sweetened with a little raw honey, yum! Some of the less well know foods are nuts and seeds, beans, grapes, cinnamon, purple potatoes, and of course dark chocolate and red wine. Although the last one might not be such a great idea before your workout.
So there are certainly plenty of pre-workout snacks to choose from.

You also get plenty of antioxidants from eating fruit and vegetables, so if your diet is packed full of both, as it should be, then the majority or your meals will be packed with antioxidants anyway. Also, most multi-vitamins have a good source of antioxidants in them, so if you take them, again you may already have a healthy level of antioxidants in the system.
Still, every little bit helps, so planning a quick “antioxidant packed” snack before your workout will add an extra boost to your workout and recovery.

While I do prefer eating raw whole foods rather than taking supplements, there are a few good quality supplements around. Unfortunately though, it can sometimes be a case of trial and error. Find one that works for you and stick with it. Even if you are taking an antioxidant supplement once a day, a quick “whole foods” boost before your workout can top it off nicely.

So to conclude our little article on antioxidants and muscle recovery…

• Antioxidants help fight free-radicals during and after exercise and a little boost before your workout will aid in faster and more efficient muscle recovery
• Continue eating plenty of the good stuff (fruits, vegetables, antioxidant rich foods like berries and green teas)
• If you feel your diet is lacking a little in the antioxidant area, and you are interested in supplements, find one that works for you and stick with it
• Have an antioxidant rich snack an hour or so before each workout to really boost your recovery

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Most of us have heard that antioxidant vitamins have many health benefits and can even prevent cancer. But getting the correct intake of antioxidants every day as not as simple as eating your fruits and veggies regularly. Find out how to take the most advantage of antioxidants in everyday life and to stay younger and healthier.
Cancer can affect anybody, and despite all the cancer research there is still no real cure for it. That is why it is so important for everybody, to take some preventive measures against cancer. The best way to prevent cancer is to include antioxidant vitamins into your everyday diet.
We all know how bad free radicals can be for our health. But what are they? To put it simply, free radicals are particles that allow extra oxygen into human cells, which causes the cells to break. Antioxidant vitamins can stop this distractive process.
Antioxidant vitamins rich foods
All doctors recommend including a variety of fruits and vegetables into your diet. These bring many benefits to your health, being low in fat and high in fiber. But they are also very rich in antioxidants. Brightly colored vegetables and fruits contain the most antioxidants. So including beetroot, carrots and red capsicum in your everyday menu, would serve you a reasonable amount of antioxidants.
Here are foods with highest content of antioxidants
- cherries,
- blackberry,
- strawberry,
- blueberry,
- red grape
- walnuts
- sunflower seeds
- ginger
- spices
- green tea
- coffee without milk
Common vitamins like Vitamin A, Vitamin C and Vitamin E are all powerful antioxidants, so all fruits rich in these vitamins should be included. But there are many more, for example red wine and red grape contains Reservatrol, an important antioxidant. Another great antioxidant Flavonoid can be found in green tea. So, the most sensible thing to do is to include a wide variety of different fruits, vegetables and berries in your diet. Berries are particularly good, because they all contain large quantities of antioxidant vitamins.
And there is one more source of antioxidants, a food that is usually on a “bad for you” list – chocolate. But it has to be dark chocolate; milk chocolate doesn’t have antioxidant properties. When you eat chocolate, or any antioxidant food, avoid drinking milk at the same time. Milk significantly reduces the effect of antioxidants.
Antioxidant vitamin supplements – are they any good?
Getting vitamins and antioxidants from natural sources is of cause the best. However, with our busy lives many people can’t eat as much fresh produce as they would like. Also bear in mind that when you buy vegetables and fruits during winter months, their antioxidant value is very low. Most vitamins are easily destroyed by light and storage, so tomatoes that are sold in a supermarket in December give you almost no health benefits, even though in general a tomato is considered a good source of antioxidants.
In this case antioxidant supplements can be beneficial. There are plenty of vitamins and dietary supplements on the market. Some of them are specifically marketed as “antioxidant supplements” others are just a variety of vitamins. Many multivitamins contains 100% of all essential vitamins for your health. Also remember, that Vitamin C is an antioxidant, and multivitamins usually don’t contain enough of Vitamin C. So it makes since to take additional Vitamin C supplements.
Whether or not vitamin supplements are as good for you as antioxidants from natural sources is debatable. Some doctors say that by taking antioxidant supplements you can meet most of your antioxidant needs. Others argue that supplements are not as beneficial as vitamins you get from food.
The problem is that vitamins in a pill are not as easily absorbed by our bodies as nutrients we get from food. So eating mostly fast food and taking antioxidant vitamin supplements to compensate is not such a good idea after all.
You can also get natural antioxidant supplements, like grape seed extract. These are absorbed better, than synthetic vitamins.
More health benefits of antioxidants
The best you can do for yourself is to include antioxidant rich foods in your diet and take antioxidants supplements if you feel that you need additional antioxidant boost. But only take quality antioxidant supplements, when it comes to vitamins they are not the same. Find out what other antioxidant vitamin supplements are essential to your health. Tatyana Turner publishes an online health magazine Antioxidants 4 Health Guide where you can find reviews of best antioxidant supplementsfind public records

Meet the “New-trients”
Today’s consumers are witnessing a new era in how foods are identified. New nutrients, not commonly understood for their health benefits, seem to be popping up on our grocer’s shelves every day. Omega fatty acids, newly defined sources of dietary fiber, and antioxidant phytochemicals are examples of healthful plant elements that are creeping into public media reports and water-cooler debates.
Laboratory and preliminary human clinical studies are revealing anti-disease properties of these “nutrients.” Extensive food and medical research underway presently will eventually translate the chemical properties into consumer understanding and terminology that we’ll grasp and use in everyday conversation.
With such potential significance to public health, the consumer education process should begin now in a way that people, from teenagers to grandparents, can readily understand antioxidants as easily as we now understand calories, carbohydrates, fat percentage, and vitamin C.
The scientific and regulatory bodies for food labeling have a great challenge ahead of them.
There are thousands of plant food sources with suspected health benefits with complicated chemical names that are unfamiliar and can be intimidating. The challenge at hand is to decipher this blizzard of names and to promote better nutrition for our families and for ourselves.
Why Antioxidants?
The beneficial antioxidant chemicals that we get from colorful plant foods represent our best defense against threatening oxidants. While oxidative stress is a normal part of cellular metabolism that occurs even in healthy people, left unchecked, it can lead to damage that accumulates with age.
Normally, oxidative species or “free radicals” are neutralized by antioxidant enzymes and food-derived antioxidants. However, the following circumstances can cause an imbalanced oxidant-antioxidant relationship that allows oxidative stress to go unopposed.
• Contamination by environmental conditions like pollution, radiation, cigarette smoke and herbicides
• Normal aging
• Poor diets that lack essential nutrients and phytochemicals
The result of this imbalance is cell and tissue damage that could lead to diseases like:
• Cancer
• Hypertension
• Diabetes
• Chronic inflammation
• Neuronal degeneration like Alzheimer’s disease
The Color Code for Antioxidants
Over the past five years, we have begun a valuable process for recognizing plant food antioxidant qualities by groupings of color—The Color Code, as written in two books entitled The Color Code and What Color is Your Diet? (publication information below).
The following is a summary of those color guides for antioxidants, and an example of how we can begin to classify and categorize the different antioxidants into the food color code.
Summary of the Color Code
This is a general scheme of example foods that can fit into each color class. Keep in mind that there are no firm lines between the classes, which allows for overlap.
1. Red – tomato, pink grapefruit, watermelon
2. Blue/Red/Purple/Black (BRPB) – blueberry, cherry, prune, blackberry
3. Orange/Yellow – carrot, pumpkin, orange, papaya
4. Green – broccoli, kale, spinach, pea
5. White – garlic, onion, cabbage, turnip
6. Brown/Gray – spices, nuts, seeds, endogenous sources
How to Apply the Color Code
Here’s a general breakdown of the color groups that have food chemicals with antioxidant qualities:
1.Enzymes (Brown/Gray)
A protein substance with a name ending in “ase”, enzymes stimulate biochemical reactions in living cells and help form new compounds that, in this case, would serve antioxidant functions.
Members of this enzyme class of antioxidants include:
• Superoxide dismutase
• Catalases
• Reductases
• Peroxidases
• Transferases
2.Vitamins (Brown/Gray)
Most consumers would already recognize the three main antioxidant vitamins—A, C and E—that are derived from food and supplements common to the public. Vitamins A and E are fat-soluble, providing antioxidant protection in cell structures like the outer membrane and inner nuclear organelles. Vitamin C dissolves readily in body water compartments, so it is well distributed in the body. Of particular note is the important role of vitamin C in protecting vitamins A and E from damaging oxidative free radicals.
3.Phenolics (BRPB)
With more than 8,000 individual chemicals that serve plants as pigments, the phenolics (also called phenols or polyphenols) are water-soluble acids that not only give plants colors, but also differentiate scents, tastes, and bitterness. The large class of phenolics (called flavonoids) is often mentioned in current public media. Quercetin, kaempferol and peonidin are examples of flavonoids that have been in the news recently.
4.Carotenoids (Orange/Yellow, Red)
A fat-soluble group of more than 600 individual chemicals, the carotenoids (e.g., beta-carotene, lycopene, lutein and zeaxanthin “zee-a-zan-thin”) are especially powerful antioxidants. Due to their chemical structure, they are an excellent source of electrons that are aggressively sought by oxidative free radicals. A carotenoid molecule donates electrons to a free radical, sacrificing itself in antioxidant defense. Terpenes and xanthophylls are included in this class.
5.Hormones (Brown/Gray)
A growing field of medical research is identifying normal hormones typically described with cell-to-cell messaging roles in the body as having antioxidant functions. Presently only a few hormones have this identified property such as melatonin, estradiol and insulin, but future research will likely unravel similar functions for the dozens of hormones known in human physiology.
6.Minerals (All colors)
Minerals have elements that enable enzyme activity. Selenium, zinc, manganese, magnesium and copper are minerals involved in hundreds of antioxidant roles in the body.
7.Glutathione (Brown/Gray)
Probably the human body’s single most important native antioxidant, glutathione is a water-soluble molecule synthesized from food-derived amino acids. It also depends on lipoic acid (below) for synthesis.
8.Lipid effectors (Orange/Yellow)
Lipoic acid is perhaps the “perfect” antioxidant because it is a small powerful molecule that dissolves readily both in fatty layers of cells and in water – the only antioxidant to do this. Other lipid oriented antioxidants include omega fatty acids, tocopherols (like vitamin E), phytosterols, perillyl alcohol and essential oils such as limonene.
9.Saponins, steroids and stilbenes (Green, BRPB)
Related in this discussion only by their common first letter “s”, this group has established antioxidant functions and includes some well-known chemicals such as resveratrol (a stilbene of red wine and dark grapes), brassinosteroid (the growth regulator of plants) and saponin (the waxy covering on plant leaves).
10.Sulfur-containing chemicals (Green, White)
Including organosulfides, tri and diallyl sulfides and sulforaphane, this group from plants like broccoli and cabbage has been shown to have properties affecting antioxidant enzyme activity, inflammatory mediators and tumor growth.
Proposing an Antioxidant Nomenclature
Just as vitamins have been given a nominal identity (Vitamin A, B, C…etc) so too should we refer to antioxidants. This is a new system not yet formally proposed to any regulatory authority or scientific body. Classification of antioxidants must undergo the scrutiny, revision and adoption by scientists, industry and government to be acceptable for food label use in the public.
Here is the proposed breakdown:
1. Antioxidant C – carotenoids
2. Antioxidant E – enzymes
3. Antioxidant G – glutathione
4. Antioxidant H – hormones
5. Antioxidant L – lipid-associated chemicals
6. Antioxidant M – minerals
7. Antioxidant P – phenolics
8. Antioxidant S – saponins, steroids, stilbenes, sulfurs
9. Antioxidant V – vitamins
Over time, the public must feel these proposed antioxidant classes are informative and practical for understanding antioxidants and choosing preferred foods. Time will tell, but this list gives us a simple working structure to get a handle on naming antioxidants.
Reading
* Heber D. What Color Is Your Diet? HarperCollins, New York, 2001.
* Joseph JA, Nadeau DA, Underwood A. The Color Code, Hyperion, New York, 2002.
* Lee J, Koo N, Min DB. Reactive oxygen species, aging, and antioxidative nutraceuticals. Compreh. Rev. Food Sci. Food Safety 3:21-33, 2004.
Copyright 2006 Berry Health Inc. Dr. Paul Gross is a scientist and expert on cardiovascular and brain physiology. A published researcher, Gross recently completed a book on the Chinese wolfberry and has begun another on antioxidant berries. Gross is founder of Berry Health Inc, a developer of nutritional, berry-based supplements. For more information, visit http://www.berrywiSEOnline.com

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