Diet on free radicals

What to free radicals?

In the fight against these dangerous particles will help you to proper diet, which take up valuable space antioxidants, fruits and vegetables.

Free radicals - aggressive, damaging cells of the body molecules that are produced during metabolic processes. They are one of the factors causing such cancer, and diseases of the cardiovascular system.

Fortunately, our body is able to combat them effectively, thanks to antioxidants, which is able to absorb from food.

How do antioxidants work?

Vitamins A, E and C, beta-carotene, lycopene, polyphenols, flavonoids, resveratrol and other compounds in the above mentioned plant foods are among the most important antioxidants.

     Caution! It has been proven that the consumption of food with antioxidants block the harmful effects of free radicals and thereby reduce the risk of cancer, not only whether a heart attack, but also, for example liver disease, diabetes, cataracts, and as gastric ulcer.

In addition, antioxidants have a positive impact on the appearance of the skin.

Where to get antioxidants?

Although our body can produce antioxidants often alone, it is important to regularly providing them from the outside. The best, because the most digestible and most accessible source of antioxidants are fruits and vegetables (including juices made ​​from them).

The study showed that in our daily diet should not miss blackcurrants, strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, pomegranate, orange, plum, pineapple, grapefruit, apricot, aronia, cranberry or apple and red cabbage, peppers, spinach, beans, broccoli, tomatoes, green beans and red beans.

Caution! The content of antioxidants in the food is reduced by the heat treatment (for example cooking, frying). It is therefore important to eat as many raw or treated with a short heat treatment of fruits and vegetables, possibly also in the form of juices and purees.

For your health and beauty

For breakfast, fruit salad:

    in addition to vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, fruits provide you with quick energy for the morning. To balance besides eat oatmeal salads, which are a source of complex carbohydrates, and they in turn release energy slowly.

The second breakfast juice:

    the best is freshly squeezed (including then most antioxidants ), but can also be prepared from the store.

    Caution! It is important that it should be 100% juice, not drink or nectar that contain only 10-40% juice, but a lot of sugar and other additives .

For lunch salad with feta cheese:

    the perfect combination of vegetables rich in antioxidants (such as lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers ) with a source of protein cheese. Salad dressing (such as vinegar ) enter separately and pour it over the salad just before eating - it will be more crisp.

For dinner salad with carrots:

    the base of the main meal of the day is meat. Vegetables, such as high in beta- carotene and fiber, carrots, make the system better cope with the digestion of heavy meals. Pig can enrich apple, corn and raisins.

For dinner steamed vegetables:

steaming is a great way to preparing vegetables , because not only preserves more flavor, but also valuable antioxidants. Popular vegetables eat with equally valuable medically brown bread .

    Caution! Eat fruits and vegetables five times a day . It is assumed that a portion of it as much as will fit in your hand , such as tomato, 2 grated carrots.