Perhaps you’ve heard the word “Proanthocyanidins” tossed around while talking about health foods or seen it printed on a supplement lately. So what exactly are proanthocyanidins?
Tag: free radicals
Essential Antioxidants & How to Get Them from Food
You’ve probably been hearing a lot about the promising benefits of antioxidants lately, but do you really understand what they are, which ones you need, and how to get them? Antioxidants are molecular compounds that help prevent or delay oxidative damage, which contributes to a variety of medical conditions. SCS Global Services, a sustainable development…
Oxidation in our body Part II – Environmental causes
In December we posted an article – Oxidation, free radicals, antioxidants and your body. How it works -Part I. That post describes how the natural digestion of food and the breakdown of the chemical bonds in sugar molecules to give us energy causes the temporary formation of free radical compounds in our body. Today’s post…
Oxidation, free radicals, anti-oxidants and your body. How it works – Part I
The terms “oxidation” and “anti-oxidants” have long been used in the health food industry to encourage and sometimes scare the public to purchase supplements that might offer some anti-oxidant protection. Oxygen is an important molecule, one of the sources of life on our planet. However, oxygen is very unstable. In too high of a concentration,…