Understanding the Antioxidant Controversy: Scrutinizing the Fountain of Youth

by Paul E. Milbury and Alice C. Richer

Book Overview

Current scientific evidence suggests that free radicals-- unstable by-products produced by normal human metabolic processes--damage the body, resulting in chronic health disorders and degenerative changes associated with aging. Nutritional products on the market today promise antioxidants can reduce--possibly even reverse--damage caused by these free radicals. If true, that would mean less chronic disease and premature aging, at the very least...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275993760
• ISBN13: 9780275993764
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.8" x 9.5"