August 18, 2008
- Discover How to Protect Your Vision with Food, Supplements
By Bob Condor
More Americans are having trouble reading eye charts. That’s the bottom-line finding from a study published earlier this month in the Archives of Ophthalmology medical journal. (…)
June 18, 2008
- Grape seed extract shows promise for preventing Alzheimer’s
By Bob Condor
Forget sour. The news about the health value of grapes just keeps getting sweeter.
Researchers at the Mt. (…)
February 12, 2008
- "Vitamins and Supplements", Part III - by Dr. Saunders
Part III: Antioxidant vitamins
Calories are energy.
There are various forms of energy that can be used by the body; the three major ones are sugar, fat, and protein. These all must be converted in the cell into another form, mostly ATP (adenosine tri-phosphate) in order to provide energy for the cell to function.
Other conversions happen, including sugar into other carbohydrates or fat, and fat into sugar.
Every time an energy conversion happens some oxygen free-radicals are produced. These are highly reactive and can damage whatever they contact.
This is why it's important to have anti-oxidant vitamins everywhere in the body where energy is used. (…)
