Sentences with phrase «antioxidants come from our diet»

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I bet maybe you'd mention superfoods, or talk about increasing intake of vegetables and fruit, or perhaps taking a few supplements like vitamins C and E. Those would all be correct answers, but the main star in your antioxidant echelon doesn't get tons of glory, and very little of it comes from your diet.

The only product in our diet coming directly from a plant's sap, this natural sweetener features over 65 antioxidants that can help delay or prevent diseases caused by free radicals, such as cancer or diabetes.

The antioxidants you do eat should come from healthy fruits and vegetables that you would be eating anyways as part of a healthy diet.

There are lots of other changes this represents too, such as the presence of chemicals in our food supply (pesticides, herbicides, xenoestrogens, etc) that didn't exist in the ancient diet, as well as the dramatic changes caused by hybridization of many of our foods, which creates versions of fruits and vegetables bred more for size, sweetness, and appearance as opposed to natural nutrition... this aspect has decreased micronutrient content in the modern day food supply (just look at wild blueberries vs cultivated blueberries as an example of that with wild berries coming in at more than DOUBLE the antioxidants from ORAC testing).

A diet that's rich in antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals will help to keep this dog's immune system strong and capable — which will do a lot to keep him or her from getting sick and coming down with other diseases or conditions.