Friday, July 31, 2015

Bioology Week Twelve: Free Radicals and Antioxidants

"People should still eat healthy food" - do we rely too heavily on supplements to provide antioxidants?

Modern life makes it very difficult to maintain a healthy diet purely through eating well. Maybe we are too busy to cook or maybe we can't afford to eat as we would like. Either way supplements seem like a way to access nutrients we can't get through our diet. Unfortunately, supplements do not actually give us the nutrition we think and in some cases may hurt us. As hard as it can be to make happen, nothing is as effective as eating a diversity of nutrient dense food.

“Aspirin a day could dramatically cut cancer risk” What are your own thoughts on this?

I need more information to form an opinion. It is well known that aspirin can have negative side effects and the article does not address this. If aspirin has some benefits but harms our bodies in other ways, are we really better off?

2 comments:

  1. I AGREE WITH YOU, DEAR FRIEND, LIKE I SAID, I KNOW 2 PEOPLE THAT WAS USING ASPIRIN ALMOST THEIR ENTIRE LIFE AND THEY HAVE CANCER, SO I STILL DONT BELIEVE ON THIS ARTICLE YET.

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  2. I agree with your opinion on an aspirin a day. There isn't enough research that shows the benefits AND the harmful effects it could have. And the research in the article doesn't explain anything else besides "it may greatly reduce the risk of cancer"

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