The Antioxidant Scorecardby Aimee Amodio | More from this Blogger 19 Apr 2006 11:36 AM If you're not quite sure what antioxidants are, start here. If you drink a cup of green tea every day to get your dose of antioxidants, you're not alone. A study from the American Institute of Cancer Research found that one in six Americans drink at least one cup of green tea every day! Antioxidants are believed to help prevent heart disease and cancer -- it's great to see so many people making the effort to eat and drink responsibly! Recently, the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) has been rating different foods -- scoring the antioxidant power of different fruits and veggies. Green tea, the seeming antioxidant standard, gets a score of 2231. Believe it or not, you can get THREE TIMES as many antioxidants in one cup of blueberries! They top the USDA list with a score of 9019. There are lots of fruits and vegetables and even nuts that have more antioxidant power than the old green tea standby.
The nice thing about picking fruits and veggies and nuts over plain old green tea is all the OTHER vitamins and nutrients that you get. It's not easy to eat right every day when you're running around like crazy... so combining your daily dose of antioxidants with some other wholesome food will help you manage your health and diet even more easily! And if you can't find something on that long list to like... I guess you're stuck with the green tea. Learn more about Aimee Amodio  Aimee is a fiction writer... dog lover... music lover... Relevanthealth tags User Comments RD4U (11) 13 Feb 2007 09:34 PMRight On! Antioxidants are the key to preventing the damage done by those free radicals running amuck inside our cells causing cancer, aging, weakening our immune system and a host of other chronic diseases. Eat 5 - 13 fruits and veggies everyday they say. But who does that??? There is a way to bridge the gap between what we're SUPPOSED to eat for our health and what we ACTUALLY eat -- JuicePlus+ -- 17 fruits and veggies and 9 berries in capsule form. WHOLE FOOD NUTRITION -- DISEASE PREVENTION Read the research -- JuicePlus+ is the most scientifically researched nutritional supplement worldwide, listen to what physicians are saying....... WWW.SimpleNutrition4U.net It isn't that fruits and vegetables are good for you, it's that they are so good for you they can save your life! Fruits and Veggies -- more IS better. What child eats enough of them? What adult makes them? It's more important than we realize. www.SimpleNutrition4U.net -- take a giant step towards disease prevention today!! Community Tags antioxidants, cancer, green tea, heart disease Discuss this article
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