Anti-Oxidants More Hype Than Help

Here’s the last paragraph of a discouraging story in The Scientific American about the alleged benefits of anti-oxidants:"In any case, the research is clear: Large, carefully controlled studies
and trials have consistently found no benefit to antioxidant
supplements, says Alice Lichtenstein of the American Heart Association. ‘You have to take the totality of the data, and that’s what we normally
do [in science],’ she says. ‘Why are they popular? I don’t know. Maybe
because it sounds like the easy answer.’
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