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- DermDoc, on 03/11/2008, -3/+84Butter is bad for you. Butter is good for you. Sun is bad for you. Sun is good for you. Doctors, sheesh, you never know when to believe 'em.
- FoodBlogga, on 03/11/2008, -2/+54That's it. I'm going back to smoking.
- slashbot, on 03/11/2008, -1/+31I always knew applying antioxidants to my cereal and adding them to my face was a bad idea
- DeskFlyer, on 03/11/2008, -5/+34Stop calling me Shirley.
- WWWoody, on 03/11/2008, -1/+25Everything in the world gives us cancer. This is a fact.
- raskali, on 03/11/2008, -1/+25Sensationalist articles based on one study are stupid.
- BinaryFragger, on 03/11/2008, -0/+21Warning: these medical studies are hazardous to your health.
- cgoff, on 03/11/2008, -8/+27The problem is the processing of said minerals/vitamins/etc. The first poster wrote a classic example: butter is bad for you, butter is good for you. Unprocessed butter (i.e. the kind you make yourself) is extremely good for you. The same with eggs from chickens you own yourself, don't medicate, and allow to free-range. Did you know they are now radiating the meat you get from most super markets? How do you think you could get anything beneficial from that? You might as well eat a piece of paper!
Get your hands on stuff that is either non-processed, or processed very little so as to maintain as much of the original nutrition as possible. That goes for vitamins as well (in fruits, etc.). It can be more expensive, it can take longer to prepare, but knowing you're feeding your body properly is worth it. It might also keep the medical bills down for a long time to come. - theYevvin, on 03/11/2008, -1/+20Have you ever seen rust? How about a sliced apple? It's called oxidation my friend. Oxygen likes to interact with things, like Carbon, which is good for getting the Carbon out of us, but bad for everything else. Oxygen is particularly fond of interacting with DNA and changing the code for that cell, which apparently you need to make new cells.....that aren't cancerous. So really, Oxygen rusts your DNA.
- roho76, on 03/11/2008, -1/+18Here's an idea. Eat real food! Stop eating junk and then taking some multivitamin horse pill at the end of the day and think everything is going to be OK. I don't even touch Tylenol. The people who own these companies don't give a ***** about you. We are one step up from a lab rat to them.
- DephexTwin, on 03/11/2008, -0/+16Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
- xtmno3, on 03/11/2008, -1/+17Why so serious, world? Everything is killing you, it is just a matter of how fast. Quit worrying so much about it.
- Smaulz, on 03/11/2008, -0/+16You ever seen a grown man naked?
- inactive, on 03/11/2008, -1/+17Real info, with sources.
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/antio ... - DermDoc, on 03/11/2008, -0/+15http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/content/abstract/137/9 ...
- maninblac1, on 03/11/2008, -0/+15It's also been shown that unless prescribed, the large overdoses found in Vitamin C and E pills are in general bad for you anyway, regardless if it raises your risk of cancer or not. Anything is excess is bad for you, everything in moderation.
The only antioxidants you don't get on regular basis from your meals or a daily multi-vitamin are those which are found in herbs like the mint family. But science doesn't really know if they even help or not. - rromanchuk, on 03/11/2008, -1/+16It's a big building with patients, but that's not important right now.
- Flashman, on 03/11/2008, -2/+16"A study last year published in the Journal of Nutrition..."
Link? - div2n, on 03/11/2008, -0/+13The problem is that the truth isn't binary.
If you are looking for clear cut "this is good/bad for you" then you are going to find yourself constantly confused. - Icupnimpn2, on 03/11/2008, -0/+13There's a very big difference between an "antioxidant" and what you seem to have invented, an "antioxygen."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxidizing_agent - Mardi, on 03/11/2008, -0/+12Overdosing on vitamin C?
I thought vitamin C was water soluble... - jupaneanu, on 03/11/2008, -0/+12I'm really confused by all these recent studies
- Toxigen, on 03/11/2008, -0/+12I just scrolled through that article and it actually states that only women have a higher chance of skin cancer if they take anti-oxidants. Men actually have a lower chance of skin cancer if they take anti-oxidants (although that wasn't significant in this study).
EDIT: I didn't read the digg article as the site is down, but reading the scientific paper is, in my experience, usually better. - SpookyApplePie, on 03/11/2008, -0/+11Eat Well. Stay Fit. DIE ANYWAY
- blackbeardtron, on 03/11/2008, -0/+10He has a drinking problem.
- K31TH3R, on 03/11/2008, -0/+9Joey, have you ever been to a turkish prison?
- atchon, on 03/11/2008, -0/+9Irradiation destroys vitamins and proteins as well. Being irradiated by the sun right now causes tens of thousands of mutations, your body just repairs itself the steak that was just irradiated can't repair itself. Obviously irradiation does serve a very important part on cutting down on microbes.
- shaka999, on 03/11/2008, -0/+9All the bogus science out there doesn't help either. Too many studies funded by companies showing their product is the best thing ever.
Even this article places too much emphasis on the antioxidants without looking into the categories of women. So, women who take antioxidants have a higher incident of skin cancer. Maybe the women that care enough to take the antioxidants also get out and exercise outside more thus exposing themselves to more sun. I'm not saying this is the case but without looking for other possible causes we don't really learn much.... - bandaidkjk, on 03/11/2008, -0/+9Look into the enzyme Polyphenyl Oxidase
- marcusbrutus, on 03/11/2008, -0/+9First the Earth cooled, then the dinosaurs came but they became too big and died, then the Arabs came and they drove Mercedes-Benz's.
- DirtPile, on 03/11/2008, -1/+9Those doctors. They tell us to drink eight glasses of gravy per day, and now this.
- awflasher, on 03/11/2008, -0/+8Killing Killing .... Everything is killing me :(
- lovecss, on 03/11/2008, -1/+8Engage autopilot!
- inactive, on 03/11/2008, -1/+8But...but..think of the kittens!
- slashbot, on 03/11/2008, -0/+7Merely living gives us cancer. This is a fact.
- ThecNiqueMan, on 03/11/2008, -0/+7Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?
- modusop, on 03/11/2008, -0/+7Overdose on Vitamin C = taking it past bowel tolerance, which usually makes people stop taking it well before an overdose.
- JavertHolmes, on 03/11/2008, -1/+7Hmm, interesting concept for a troll-only account. I give it a B.
- boxcuttastyle, on 03/11/2008, -1/+7"Taking 1,000 mg of vitamin D3 a day is the best way (much better than sun exposure) for elevating your vitamin D levels."
Horsesh1t. Never let anyone tell you that sun exposure is bad for you. Good health = exercise outside, don't eat fast food.
What an *****. - TheDreadDiggerD, on 03/11/2008, -1/+7The study is a lie.
The study is a lie.
The study is a lie.
The study is a lie. - inactive, on 03/11/2008, -8/+14What does irradiation have to do with nutrition? Its not a disease you can catch like 'the clap'. Radiation isn't enough to damage your food, just certain microbes. It's ignorance like this which confuses people. In fact, you are being irradiated by the sun right now. Indoors you say? In fact you are being slightly less irradiated than you would be if you were outside.
- treed, on 03/11/2008, -2/+8You know that you can overdose on water, right?
- ingoldsby, on 03/11/2008, -0/+6Everything in moderation. People should really get this by now...
- BoneheadFarker, on 03/11/2008, -0/+6I was born to be an example to others. Unfortunately the example is "What not to do."
- ryan850, on 03/11/2008, -0/+6The media jumps on scientific studies as though they are all valid. The public doesn't actually bother to read the study (who has the time really). We just hear the headlines and believe them all to be just as valid even if one of the studies was *****. Plus everybody is different. When it comes to nutrition you will never be able to tell 100% of the population that one thing in a specific quantity is good for you.
- DephexTwin, on 03/11/2008, -0/+6Dude... why are you oxidizing ants?
- legendxx, on 03/11/2008, -0/+5Living has also been proven to increase the risk of cancer. You don't see dead people getting cancer do you?
- universltravlr, on 03/11/2008, -1/+6Well Science, here, is trying to generalize across the entire population and people just are not that similar. Everyone has vastly different genetic and environmental backgrounds, and these differences, I think, account for why a healthy child will develop cancer, while a 100 year old continues to smoke cancer-free. Everyone has individual genetic vulnerabilities and can encounter other risk factors, which combined with environmental effects, can either be detrimental to health or protect it. Im basing this on my study of neurodegenerative diseases, many of which are idiopathic.
- sngx1275, on 03/11/2008, -0/+5Sure you can overconsume anything. But I think you'd need to take a ton of those 1666% DV Vitamin C pills to do any harm, what you don't absorb just gets pissed out. So unless you are taking some insane amount of those daily I don't think there is any problem.
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