Food Antioxidants, Stroke, and Heart Disease

The oxidation of high-fat and cholesterol-rich foods in our stomachs may help explain why eating antioxidant packed foods appears to reduce heart attack and stroke risk.

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What about antioxidants and cancer? That was the subject of my last video Food Antioxidants and Cancer (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/food-....

Which foods have the highest antioxidant content? See:

• Anti-up on the Veggies (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/anti-...)
• Antioxidants in a Pinch (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/antio...)
• Best Berries (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/best-...)
• Better Than Goji Berries (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/bette...)
• Better Than Green Tea? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/bette...)
• The Best Apple (http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/the-...)
• The Best Beans (http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/the-...)
• The Best Nuts (http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/the-...)
• The Fruit Whose Juice is Healthier (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-f...)
• The Healthiest Herbal Tea (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-h...)

It's the heme iron in chicken blood that may be contributing to fat oxidation in the stomach. That's one of the targets of the Meat Additives to Diminish Toxicity (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/meat-....

More on reducing stroke risk can be found in my videos Preventing Strokes with Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/preve...) and Whole Grains May Work As Well As Drugs (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/whole....

I have more than 150 videos on heart disease (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/hear.... Heart Disease Starts in Childhood (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/heart...) and One in a Thousand Ending the Heart Disease Epidemic (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/one-i...) are among two of the most recent.

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