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by fffrad 3796 days ago
What I find interesting is how everyone has already accepted that antioxidants are amazing against cancer. Now with this information will be resisted and fought, whether it is true or false.

Every health nut (or enthusiast) praised antioxidants and will hold on to the belief because they already believed it for so long.

We don't believe in facts, we believe in whatever advertisers have exposed to us everyday on tv, radio, internet, and so on.

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Wait, everyone accepted what now? Prior to reading this article, I was of the belief that there had already been randomized controlled trials showing that antioxidant supplements increased all-cause mortality, mostly from cancer, and that this had a known mechanism (oxidative stress kills cancer cells more than it kills regular cells).