Radical Health

The word radical means root and the root of health care is a trusting patient-provider relationship. Radical Health is designed to teach dietitians how to see and hear their patients clearly without interpretations, explanations, rationalizations, and manipulation of their feelings or actions. Learning to become aware of judgments, age-old hurts, childhood angers, and reactive states enables clinicians to actively acknowledge these reactions and allow them to... 

Some colors are nutrients in their own right, and they have antioxidant properties that are beneficial to health. Beta-carotene, annatto, saffron, and turmeric all have these good properties in addition to their color. In fact, the same chemistry that makes them absorb light also helps them to absorb and neutralize dangerous oxygen free radicals in the body. 

In nearly every pharmacy, supermarket, and health food store, you can find bottles of antioxidants and antioxidant-rich natural products, such as fish oils, Gingko biloba leaves, and wheat grass. These dietary supplements are intended to help the body control its population of radicals and, as a result, slow aging and degenerative diseases such as heart failure and cancer. 

The main environmental issue concerned with VOCs is their ability to form low-level ozone and smog through free radical air oxidation processes. The EPA has published a list detailing a number of adverse health effects, which are now thought to originate from the presence of VOCs in the environment, including ... 

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At least some of the antioxidant nutrients are essential to human health, and others (such as carotenoids) may be highly beneficial, particularly in preventing cancer (e.g. Block et /., 1992). However, we do not yet know what dietary intakes are optimal. In principle, this could be investigated by varying the dietary intake of antioxidants and measuring free-radical damage in the human body. This is one of our current research directions. 

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