According to Dr. Steve Chaney, adding vitamin E to your diet is a key factor in protecting the cells from free redical damage.
He states:
“With all this talk about whether low fat or low
carbohydrate meals are better, we tend to loose sight
of the fact that the average American diet is high in
both fat and carbohydrates. Almost anything is better
than that.
One of the reasons that high fat, high carbohydrate
meals are so harmful is that they dramatically increase
the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS),
otherwise known as free radicals.
Moreover, new research shows that high fat, high
carbohydrate diets are particularly harmful to the
obese.
Dr. Paresh Dandona from the University of Buffalo
recently published a study in the Journal of Clinical
Endocrinology and Metabolism in which he looked at free
radical production over a period of three hours after
the consumption of a Big Mac, large order of French
fries, a large Coke and apple pie (an 1,800-calorie
meal composed of 62 percent carbohydrate, 30 percent
fat and 8 percent protein).
The results showed that free radicals increased
significantly in both groups at 2 hours, but continued
to increase at 3 hours in the obese subjects, while
levels dropped to baseline in the normal weight
subjects.
A MacDonald’s “Happy Meal” is not good news for your
health under the best of conditions, but apparently
it’s even worse if you are overweight.
NOTE: Previous studies have shown that consumption of
vitamin E or other antioxidants along with this type of
meal significantly decreases free radical production.
I would not suggest for a minute that antioxidants can
offset the bad effects of obesity and poor diets on our
health, but this is one of the many reasons why I
recommend vitamin E and other antioxidant supplements
as part of an optimal health program.”
I think this is very interesting that free radicals continue to increase in obese individuals while the
they decrease to base line in normal weight subjects. It’s another reason why vitamin E and supplementation is so important.
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