Aaron Wilmont asked:


There are many books, web sites, magazines and other information which is centered on health, nutrition, diets, vitamins and antioxidants. This information is often based on one subject matter source, be it nutrition or vitamins. For the most part, very few offer information on all of these subjects in a comprehensive manner.

To find pertinent information on good health it is often through a lot of reading and research in different publications, to find the proper system that works for them with all the different items that are manufactured for good health.

In the information that is readily available today it may at times be difficult to decide what is right for you personally, the easy part of this is if one health regiment does not work another will to control weight, health and make you feel better in everyday life.

As a general rule, when a person is eating the proper foods it shows in their appearance, their hair and skin is healthier and their energy level is higher than a person who does not eat properly, does not get the proper vitamins and antioxidants. When a person does not get the proper nutrition, vitamins and antioxidants it is seen in the skin, which may not be clear, hair that can become dull and brittle and finger nails, which can split and break easily.

Of course, health is in the news every single day, and naturally everyone is concerned with proper nutrition and one of the most talked about parts of health and nutrition is antioxidants. There has been and is ongoing research regarding antioxidants, but what are they and what do they really do is the question that many people think they know but are not certain.

Antioxidants are found in many foods naturally such as vegetables, grains, nuts and some meat like poultry and fish. It is particularly rich goji juice which is made from the goji or wolf berry and is especially rich in the the Himalayan goji juice. In fact is found in abundance in most berries such as the acai and blueberry.

What this does is help to protect cells in the body against free radicals; these are molecules that are produced when the body breaks food down. Free radicals can also be found elsewhere, such as tobacco smoke and exposure to radiation. Without the protection of antioxidants according to some research, free radicals can damages cells in the body causing such effects as heart disease, cancer and other disease.

Other research leads to the belief that they help to slow the aging process and lengthen the life span, which is something that attracts people to the consumption of foods or daily supplements rather than the nutritional value.

Some of the better-known places that antioxidants are found is Beta-carotene, Lutein, Lycopene, Selenium, vitamin A, C and E, including foods rich in these. Antioxidants are extremely important due to their inherent free-radical fighting properties. Free radicals, when left unchecked, can harm the body at the cellular level and cause many of the symptoms that we associate with aging, such as wrinkling or discoloration of the skin.

For the most part, when an individual is consuming the proper foods it shows in their appearance, their skin in particular is healthier and their energy level is generally at a higher level than someone who does not eat properly, does not get the proper vitamins and antioxidants. This is where products such as goji juice and acai juice, for instance, can help because when a person does not get the needed nutrition it is seen in the skin, which may not be very clear.

Goji juice appears to be very important in this regard due to it’s strong ORAC rating which basically measures the free radical absorption capacity of a particular food item. The latest nutrition technology makes goji juice even more potent as spectroscopic analysis, which is essentially a molecular fingerprinting technique is used in the production phase to single out only the most nutrient dense goji berries with the highest absorption ratio in people.

With this particular method the quality of the goji juice is largely assured. Besides the himalayan goji or worlf berry and goji juice, other top sources of antioxidants include the acai berry, leafy green vegetables like spinach and broccoli, raspberries, strawberries and tomatoes, among others.



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Oswaldo Baack asked:


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Antioxidant Facts

Antioxidants are substances that may protect your cells against the effects of free radicals. Free radicals are molecules produced when your body breaks down food, or by environmental exposures like tobacco smoke and radiation. Free radicals can damage cells, and may play a role in heart disease, cancer and other diseases. Antioxidants like those found in Acai fight hard to help prevent free radicals from doing their damage.



Monavie Acai Berry

Carl Cruz asked:

Do you remember Beta Carotene? In the 1980’s, no one but doctors and nutritionists had ever heard that beta carotene even existed, until one day when some technician found that the high BC content in carrots does a lot of good for heart patients.

So in 1992 a major study (18,000 people) was done on the Antioxidant properties of beta carotene by giving it in pill form to cancer patients. It failed miserably.

Researchers are still scratching their heads over why it was such an utter failure, even though beta carotene is a form of Antioxidant.

Vitamin E has a similar story. It too is an Antioxidant; in fact it is the one that the ORAC scale is based upon. Unlike the solid beta carotene pill incident, Vitamin E is in liquid form, so it’s getting fully digested for sure, yet its effects as an antioxidant are pretty nominal.

Aside: It’s a pretty shocking story too… Two large studies involving more than 127,000 people in total were run in 1990 after Vitamin E was found to help Heart patients. Because of this, by the year 2000 an estimated 23 million US citizens were taking Vitamin E daily… But in recent years 7 more such studies have been found to show little or no improvement at all!

Anyway, let me lay down one other scenario, a more modern one. You’ve probably heard the French paradox, but if not, here’s a recap:

French people’s diet is the only one higher in saturated fats and cholesterol than the diet of Americans. It’s been well proven. However, with that diet, you might expect for the French to have a higher incident rate of Heart Disease than Americans, but they clearly do not.

Researchers believe that this paradox is caused by the very high amounts of Anthocyanins in red wine, which the French consume way more than the average amount of daily. Anthocyanins, of course, are one of the most potent Antioxidants.

So, what do you think will happen if they pack a pill full of Anthocyanins?

I’d be willing to bet the exact same thing would happen that happened with beta carotene and vitamin E… Nada.

These examples are hard evidence that Antioxidants must come in natural form in order to be effective free-radical scavengers. It makes perfect sense to me… What is free-radical scavenging but something acting alive and moving around? If you stop that thing cold in its tracks, like say, compressing it into a cold, lifeless pill, then how is that going to preserve the scavenging property?

So, my overall point here today is to get your Antioxidants from a fibrous form, such as berries or berry pulp. Don’t let it get encapsulated or worse yet, made into a solid pill.

Eating the berries off the tree is the best way to get those free scavengers rampaging of course, but since everyone outside of Amazonia doesn’t have that option, your next best bet is to find it processed with consideration for preserving the fiber. Frozen pulp may be the best way to do that, but it really depends on the processing technique.

As for freeze dried Acai, I don’t claim to have all the answers. It seems like that would stop the scavenging dead in its tracks, but then again, freeze-dried Acai has the highest ORAC rating… And specifically with MonaVie, their patented process also includes re-mixing their freeze-dried Acai with fresh pulp… So perhaps that gets both the high ORAC rating and the still-moving scavengers both inside at once. And who knows? Maybe the ones still moving can reanimate the frozen ones!

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