As life expectancies across the world steadily increase, the world’s population is inexorably ageing. Too often, with age comes difficult health problems such as dementia or Alzheimer’s disease. These…
Articles on Antioxidants
Displaying 41 - 49 of 49 articles
Consuming oral antioxidants does not improve the chances of a woman conceiving, a meta-analysis has shown. Researchers analysed…
Without vitamins in our diet we wouldn’t survive but taking too many can be harmful. There’s a limit to how much we actually need. However, since the discovery of vitamins - or “vital amines” as they were…
People who eat greater amounts of blueberries and strawberries could delay their cognitive ageing by years, according to data from a large-scale study conducted over more than three decades. In a paper…
Little understood and lacking effective drugs for addressing the scope of its symptoms, bipolar disorder can wreak havoc with the lives of people who suffer from it. Now an over-the-counter drug is offering…
A recently-developed chemical compound mimics the activity of antioxidants found in wine and chocolate. The synthetic compounds…
An antioxidant found in grapes may help prevent the development of Alzheimer’s disease, according to researchers at a US…
Male fertility could be enhanced by dietary antioxidants, according to researchers at the University of Western Australia…
The red pigment in tomatoes could help prevent prostate cancer, according to researchers at a US university. A daily dose…
Top contributors
-
Honorary Associate Professor, University of Leicester
-
Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Laurentian University
-
Professor, University of Newcastle
-
Associate Professor, Human Molecular Nutrition, University of Newcastle
-
Lecturer, Northumbria University, Newcastle
-
Professor of Biochemistry, University of Aberdeen
-
Senior Lecturer, Nutrition and Food Science, Australian Catholic University
-
Assistant Teaching Professor in Nutritional Sciences, Penn State
-
-
Professor of Applied Sport Nutrition and Sport Nutrition Consultant, Sheffield Hallam University
-
Professor; NHMRC Clinical Research Fellow; NICM Health Research Institute Deputy Director, Western Sydney University
-
Professor of Nutritional Physiology, Anglia Ruskin University
-
PhD student, University of Exeter
-
Professor, School of Medicine, University of Connecticut
-
PhD student in Biology, University of Rochester