Maybe you've heard that antioxidants are good for fighting cancer, but do you know why? To find out how antioxidants prevent cancer, watch this video featuring nutrition expert Dr. Neal Barnard.
Antioxidants are probably the most important part of the foods that we're eating. Here's why, in normal body metabolism certain malicious chemicals are formed, they're called free radicals. They're in your bloodstream, and they're like factory exhaust, they're ready to erode you.
They get inside the cells, they damage DNA that's the first step in cancer, but antioxidants knock them out. What are antioxidants? They're in citrus fruits like vitamin C they're in sweet potatoes and carrots, that orange color is beta-carotene, a bright red tomato has lycopene you don't have to remember these words they won't be on a test but you do have to remember is eat your citrus fruits, eat the orange vegetables carrots, sweet potatoes, don't forget the tomatoes they got that lycopene in them you put them together you're going to get the antioxidants they knock out the free radicals, they protect you against cancer.
William Li, MD, is President, Medical Director, and Co-founder of the Angiogenesis Foundation. He has been actively involved in angiogenesis research and development for 22 years. Li trained with Judah Folkman, a pioneer of the field.
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