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An antioxidant is a chemical that reduces the rate of particular oxidation reactions in a specific context, where oxidation reactions are chemical reactions that involve the transfer of electrons from a substance to an oxidising agent. Antioxidants are particularly important in the context of organic chemistry and biology: all living cells contain complex systems of antioxidant chemicals and/or enzymes to prevent chemical damage to the cells' components by oxidation. The importance and compl ...
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Resources
- Anti-Aging Therapies: Youth in a Bottle? (Mayo Clinic)
- Antioxidant Vitamins (American Heart Association)
- Antioxidants (Medline Plus)
- Antioxidants (National Institutes of Health)
- Antioxidants -- An Answer to Aging? (American Dietetic Association)
- Antioxidants and Cancer Prevention (National Cancer Institute)
- Antioxidants and Cancer: The Jury's Still Out (American Cancer Society)
- Antioxidants at The Diet Channel (The Diet Channel)
- Antioxidants with Concurrent Cancer Therapies: To Use or Not to Use? (Office of the Director)
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Antioxidants (National Institutes of Health)
- Coenzyme Q-10 (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
- Find a Nutrition Professional (American Dietetic Association)
- Food and Nutrition Information Center
- Get Antioxidants from Food, Not Supplements, Says American Heart Association (American Heart Association)
- Lycopene and Prostate Cancer Prevention (Virtual Hospital)
- National Institutes of Health, Office of Dietary Supplements
- Selenium (Office of Dietary Supplements)
- Study of Menopausal Women with Heart Disease Finds No Benefit, Potential for Harm from Hormone Therapy and Antioxidant Vitamins (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
- Study Suggests Coenzyme Q10 Slows Functional Decline in Parkinson's Disease (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
- Tea and Cancer Prevention (National Cancer Institute)
- USDA-NCC Carotenoid Database for U.S. Foods--1998 (Dept. of Agriculture)
- Vitamin A and Carotenoids (Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center, NIH, HHS)
- Vitamin E (National Institutes of Health, Office of Dietary Supplements)
- Vitamin E (Office of Dietary Supplements)
- Vitamins, Anti-Bacterials May Prevent Stomach Cancer (National Cancer Institute)

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