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Antioxidants can not forget in your diet if you make physical activity

AntioxidantsAntioxidants are chemical substances and compounds that can be found among the vitamins, minerals or enzymes, which neutralize the damaging effect of so-called “free radicals”.

All generate free radicals in the body as a result of each of the metabolic processes that occur there, but there are activities, circumstances, or certain body compositions that due to their internal processes increase their production.
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Antioxidants need to be taken before sports

AntioxidantsWe know that making hard sport free radicals attack our body and rust, that’s why we take antioxidants found in foods and prevent premature cell aging. We do not know is when to take them.

It seems that the best time to take antioxidants is prior to intense activity or sport: competition, training and antioxidants cane … have proved to be most effective, neutralizing the harmful effects of free radicals.

Let’s take a brief survey of the main antioxidant-rich foods: tomatoes, cacao, nuts, berries and fruits and vegetables in general. The most comfortable for the athletes is to take as a smoothie or juice one hour before the activity and also step moisturize.

Natural antioxidants to be younger

Natural antioxidantsWe have repeatedly spoken of the risks that free radicals pose to the body and the importance of protecting our cells with natural antioxidants. It is important to know which ones can help in protecting our cells.

A good and proper diet can bring us a very good health. It is important to take this into account and upload your diet of foods that are going to help on the way to protect our cells. Many people take hold of artificial antioxidants and vitamins, when not necessary provided that we obtain through food. It is therefore important that we know what nutrients we will help.
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Nutrients and non-nutritive

Nutrients and non-nutritiveNutrients and non-nutritive substances that act as antioxidants
Vitamins

Vitamin C: In fruits and vegetables, fresh and raw, like guava, kiwi, mango, pineapple, persimmon, citrus, melons, strawberries, berries, peppers, tomatoes, brassicas (vegetables from the cabbage family), fruits and vegetables general.

Vitamin E (tocopherol): wheat germ, soybean oil, germ of cereals or whole grain cereals, olive oil, green leafy vegetables and nuts.
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What are antioxidants?

antioxidantsThis is a group of vitamins, minerals, natural dyes from plants and other compounds and enzymes (substances from our body involved in multiple metabolic processes), which block the damaging effect of the so-called free radicals. Most of the antioxidants found in plant foods, which explains that include fruits, legumes, vegetables or whole grains in our diet is so beneficial.

Free radicals and oxidation

Breathing in oxygen is essential for cellular life of our body, but because of the same molecules are produced, free radicals, which lead to lifelong negative health effects for their ability to alter the DNA (genes), proteins and lipids or fats.
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Natural Antioxidants

Natural Antioxidants Nutrients and non-nutritive substances
Amino Acids Present in most plant foods, block the harmful effects of free radicals

Who has not heard of products such as juices and smoothies, vitamin A, C and E, and even candy containing vitamins or multiple benefits achieved through the inclusion of plant foods in the diet?
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Acai Berry is a source of natural antioxidants

natural antioxidants

He now prefers the use of herbal therapies with drugs of any kind, herbal substances and their derivatives are generally much more balanced than allopathic drugs.

The Acai Berry is one such herbal therapies used by man to detoxify the body, being a very effective method to clean free radicals literally the body and the discovery of this antioxidant property of Acai Berry has revolutionized the modern tendencies mainstay of treatment plants.

Acai Berry fruit is used to flush the toxins and free radicals in the body, being also known as Euterpe oleracea, is a small dark purple fruit with strong resemblance to grapes.

The performance is very little fruit juice, but the little juice extracted has tremendous amount of natural chemical principles and added to drinks and supplements used for a variety of purposes, such as increased energy and weight loss.

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