Apply the brakes on ageing

Pump up the antioxidants

Ageing is a natural process and therefore inevitable. But if you have a heart attack at 30 then you may have to change your eating pattern. Ageing cannot be avoided, but the rate at which one grows older can certainly be controlled and regularised.

Damage to the cells is caused by free radicals, which are produced by the body as a byproduct of metabolism.

Additionally, smoking, environmental pollutants, radiation, the food we eat, the water we drink and pesticides produce free radicals. We are bombarded throughout with life erasing free radicals.

The body's natural defense against these free radicals are antioxidants. In the usual course antioxidants are able to neutralise up to 99 per cent of the damage caused by free radicals.

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But the one per cent that remains, accumulates over the years and precipitates ageing and ill-health. Therefore we should try to minimise the free radical attacks from the outside and within, so that our body is better equipped to handle the handful of free radical activity that takes place within the body, as a result of metabolic activity.

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