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Antioxidants May Raise Cancer Risk?

Posted on February 29, 2008

Regular readers will know that I have for some years now been raising a red flag the wholesale promotion of antioxidants.The trouble is this: antioxidants are supposed to help rid us of some of the free radicals that have been implicated in a small number of diseases, and may also play a role in some of the physical aspects of aging. However, free radicals are also some of the major cancer killers in the body, so eradicating them even if it were possible hardly seems like a good idea.According to an analysis of a dozen studies including more than 100,000 patients in the Mayo Clinic Pro...

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