FDA: Some cholesterol and heart drugs don't mix (AP)
AP - Patients taking some common medications for high cholesterol and irregular heart beats can suffer severe muscle damage because of a problem in the way the drugs interact, the government warned on Friday.
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What is becoming clear is that plant polyphenols have quite a few biochemical mechanisms, as well as antioxidant functions.
Many polyphenols (natural ingredients in plants including fruits and vegetables) are superior antioxidants compared to vitamins.
The best antioxidant compound in our model was epigallocatechin gallate, a major polyphenol in green tea, which has been shown in epidemiological studies to buy bulk coenzyme q10 protective for heart disease.
Polyphenols are antioxidants which show fruits and vegetables, which contain both vitamins and polyphenols, may be protective for chronic diseases such as heart disease and cancer. This seems to be because they contain the polyphenols as well as the vitamins.
In other words, the active ingredients in fruits and vegetables are not simply the vitamins.
Of course vitamins C, E, and beta carotene are well-known antioxidants, but in order to get the maximim benefit for our health we need to eat the whole food, as whole foods contain much more than individual vitamins, and science is working to determine just what they are, but nature just does it so beautifully! Every thing is right there in the food!
Heart disease is the number one cause of death in developed countries, so scientists do a lot of studies on it! We have all heard of plaque in our arteries, and there are 2 forms of "bad" cholesterol (LDL and VLDL).
This eventually leads to foam cell formation and atherosclerotic plaque deposits.
So heart disease and most forms of stroke are simply rusting of the arteries.
The fast-growing antioxidant market compares antioxidants, which include the vitamins and polyphenols. And taking single purified vitamins has not been proven to be very successful in clinical studies.
It seems that the whole food, containing both the vitamins and polyphenols and all it's nutrients, is the best way to add antioxidants to our diets and get the best for health benefits.
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