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Yessi Pratiwi — November 9, 2007 / 7:37 pm
Assuming that food-based natural antioxidants are the active therapeutic agents, which foods are the best sources of total antioxidants?
The scientist in Taiwan Gow-Chin Yen and Chin-Lin Hsu, point out that large amounts of flavonoids and phenolic acids occur in fruits, vegetables, nuts and plant-based beverages such as coffee, tea, and wine.
As it is known, flavonoids and phenolic acids have beneficial health effects in reducing the risk of heart attacks, cancer, obesity, and other disorders. But, about exactly how these compounds affect fat cells hasn’t been discovered.
So, the researchers studied how 15 phenolic acids and six flavonoids affected fat cells in laboratory cultures of mouse cells. The result showed that fat cells exposed to certain antioxidants had lower levels of an enzyme that forms triglycerides and accumulated lower levels of triglycerides.
It was found that these antioxidants compounds could be effective in improving the symptoms of metabolic syndrome, a cluster of symptoms like obesity and high blood sugar that increase the risk of heart disease.
With adaptation from : American Chemical Society.
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