Antioxidant Acai - How Antioxidants in Acai Affect Your Health

In previous articles, I've vaguely introduced you to antioxidants and their positive influence on your health. However in this text I would like to elaborate on this topic in greater detail, thus allowing you to fully understand why Acai i such a healthy fruit.

There is a lot of buzz in the media, that you should consume antioxidants, because they are healthy for you. But it seems like they only throw those phrases in the air without explaining what exactly antioxidants do for us.

Well, their main role in our body is fighting with free radicals. Free radicals are excess atoms released from some other radical, during process of oxygenation.

While not all free radicals are harmful and we constantly need some of them, so our body is able to break down toxins and fight various diseases. But if there is too much of them in our body, they can cause a lot of health issues.

You can get free radicals by two ways. First is oxygenation process, oxygen in our body is starting to react with other radicals and this way free radicals are released. Second way is to receive them from the outside world.

While our bodies are able to deal with free radicals that come from oxygenation process, it is hard for them to neutralize ones that come from the outside world. And if you think you are immune to this problem, think twice...

We are constantly exposed to sources of free radicals. They come from things like Ultra-Violet rays inside sun rays, gamma rays that can come from radioactive materials.

Free radicals are also inside cigarette smoke, car exhausts and industrial fumes.

It has been calculated, we receive around 10,000 free radicals hits a day! It is impossible to avoid them, because you would have to stop breathing and walk to work in a protective suit with your own oxygen tank. The only way to fight them is to enjoy antioxidant rich diet.

Benefits of such a diet for your health are exponential. By enjoying food with a lot of antioxidants, like Acai berry, you will prevent yourself from heart diseases, neurological issues, macular degeneration, improve your immune system and of course prevent cancer.

Antioxidants are very useful if you like to train hard. They are used by many sportsmen to regenerate faster after hard workouts. Their special qualities speed up rebuilding of muscle tissue, thus ending problem of after-workout muscle pain.

An interesting fact is that almost all antioxidant rich foods have similar colors. The more vivid food the healthier it is for you.

In nature these eye catching colors are supposed to attract attention of animals that by eating fruits, spread seeds of plants and allow them to spread.

I hope this article has answered most of your questions related to antioxidants. You have to remember that antioxidants, you can find in Acai Berry, are crucial for your health. They will keep you running despite the passing time.

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