Eating vegetables raises your ORAC
This site prevously listed the oxygen radical absorbance capacity (ORAC) in various foods.
Now, a study of 43 healthy siblings of children treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) reveals that ORAC in the healthy siblings can be predicted by their intake of vegetables and beta-carotene.
The importance of antioxidant supplementation is controversial. However, earlier work by this same group of researchers showed that ORAC was inversely associated with treatment-related toxicity in children with ALL.
These latest results in healthy children suggest that oxidative capacity might be increased by increasing the intake of vegetable servings.
7/9/06 20:31 JR