Antioxidants are a ”biological rusting protection against” free radicals.
It is beneficial to eat various types of fruits and vegetables simultaneously, thereby creating an optimal network performance of the antioxidants.
The German Association for Food (DGE) therefore recommends to eat an edaquate portion o fresh fruit and vegetables 5 times daily.
but, honestly, who could really endure that?
Particularly, the outer layers of fruit and vegetables also contain the antioxidant acting polyphenols. Actually these are often stripped off. Since they contain bitter tasting constituents, they are regularly discarded during the production of ready made products or given to companies producing animal food.
It is commonly known , that contaminated material can possibly develop increasingly beneath the skin of fruit and vegetables. Therefore seniors regularly peel their fruit before eating it and in restaurants they are provided with an appropriate knife to do so.
Can we then expect an adequate supply of vitamins, trace elements and antioxidants ?
Arteriosclerosis
Regarding the metabolism of many people, experts have found a deficiency of vitamin A, (beta-carotene), C, E, zinc and selenium, all of which are essential antioxidants as well.
Not consumed vitamin C or E is excreted after approximately 3 hours. During the night it will be missing in the blood and therefore free radicals have an easy chance to thoroughly “rust” (to oxidize) the LDL- cholesterol .
It is known that LDL-Cholesterol is especially vulnerable to be oxidized by free radicals and requires a corresponding antioxidant protection. Oxidized LDL cholesterol will be attacked by the immune-competent cells of our blood, which are called macrophages and these will devour the oxidized LDL cholesterol as being an alien element. Thereafter they burst, after having excessively devoured too much of the oxidized LDL cholesterol .The resulting foam cells are then deposited on the walls enclosing the arteries. This is basically the cause of arteriosclerosis
How much fresh fruit and vegetables do you eat during the night ?
Oligomeric proanthocyanidins (OPC’s) within our blood are decomposed within a period of 72 hours and therefore, after consuming them, exist during this period in our blood and also in the blood of our arteries and veins, which sustain our brain and nerves.
