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Antioxidant

Last Updated: June 01, 2009 Related resource areas: Families, Food and Fitness

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Antioxidants protect key cell components by neutralizing the damaging effects of "free radicals," natural byproducts of cell metabolism. Free radicals form when oxygen is metabolized, or burned by the body. They travel through cells, disrupting the structure of other molecules, causing cellular damage. Such cell damage is believed to contribute to aging and various health problems.

Reprinted from the International Food Information Council Foundation, (2009)


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