Free Radicals and Disease Prevention: What You Must Know
- ISBN-10
- 0879835877
- ISBN-13
- 9780879835873
- Category
- Antioxidants
- Pages
- 79
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1993
- Publisher
- Keats Publishing
- Author
- David J. Lin
Description
Describes the nature of free radicals, destructive particles that are the underlying common factor for many serious diseases, and discusses how antioxidants such as beta carotene and vitamins C and E can combat and destroy free radicals.
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