Health-conscious consumers spend billions on antioxidant-rich foods, but for what? (Image: David Malan/Getty)
ANTIOXIDANTS have long been touted as powerful disease-preventing agents. Billions of dollars are spent annually on antioxidant supplement pills. Untold additional sums are spent by health-conscious consumers loading up on antioxidant-rich foods like blueberries and blackberries. However, claims that these products let human beings live healthier and longer lives do not stand up to .
Many, many clinical trials reveal that they lead to virtually . There is less data about antioxidants and cancer but the most recent large-scale…
Article amended on 7 October 2014
When this article was first published, it misnamed the hydroxyl radical
