Increasing dietary intake of the antioxidant vitamins C, E, and selenium could help cut the risk of developing pancreatic cancer by up to two thirds, suggests research published online in the journal Gut.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120723193203.htm
What I found particularly interesting was the data in these two paragraphs:
“Antioxidants may neutralize the harmful by-products of metabolism and normal cell activity — free radicals — and curb genetically programmed influences, as well as stimulating the immune system response, explain the authors.”
“Other trials using antioxidant supplements have not produced such encouraging results, but this may be because food sources of these nutrients may behave differently from those found in supplements, they say.”
Hort Research is the preeminent antioxidant research facility in the world. The scientists there explain that not only are the ORAC scores of individual foods important, what is even more valuable is how well the antioxidants present in the foods are absorbed into the blood stream. Their experiments reveal that consuming multiple foods with high antioxidant values (cacao, acai, camu camu and goji berries were the ones they tested) results in a synergistic effect that may triple the absorption of the antioxidants (found in both foods) into the blood.
Sort of reinforces the wisdom of putting 138 antioxidant ingredients together into one food bar doesn’t it?
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