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http://www.usatoday.com/life/health/lhs049.htm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (arthurl@tiac.net)
Sat Oct 7 12:18:54 1995
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 1995 12:18:08 -0400
From: "arthurl@tiac.net" <arthurl@zork.tiac.net>
To: vsg@MIT.EDU
I came across this article while I was going through the online
version of USA Today, the URL of which appears in the subject
line.
Arthur Lobo
apl@max.tiac.net
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> Carper finds youth in produce aisle
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> If nothing else could get you to eat your fruits and vegetables, maybe
> this will: Nutrition guru and author Jean Carper says eating plenty of
> produce will slow down aging.
>
> Carper, 63, isn't talking about crow's feet here, but the aging that
> goes on under the skin with the development of chronic age-associated
> diseases, including heart disease, cancer and degenerative brain
> diseases.
>
> Her advice for people who want to stay healthy longer, live longer and
> reverse some of the signs of aging: Eat lots of fruits and vegetables,
> drink black and green tea, eat garlic and fish, avoid saturated fat
> and take vitamin and mineral supplements.
>
> Some think Carper is on the cutting edge; others think she's over the
> edge. But that doesn't stop her from stewing over the latest nutrition
> studies and serving up her best advice for eating right. This time
> it's in Stop Aging Now!: The Ultimate Plan for Staying Young and
> Reversing the Aging Process (HarperCollins, $24).
>
> Carper, a columnist for USA WEEKEND magazine, is also the author of
> the best-selling Food - Your Miracle Medicine (HarperPerennial, $13)
> and The Food Pharmacy (Bantam, $13.95).
>
> Q: What is the basic premise of your new book?
>
> A: We are aging more rapidly than we need to. We could dramatically
> slow that rate and the onset of virtually all the chronic diseases
> that we regard as inevitable such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes
> and arthritis if we did everything possible to rev up our antioxidant
> defenses and correct nutritional deficiencies.
>
> Q: What causes aging?
>
> A: You have in your body renegade chemicals called free radicals. You
> produce them internally when you breathe and are exposed to the sun.
> And you get them from environmental pollutants, including smoke. These
> free radicals damage the cells permanently. That's the basic cause of
> aging.
>
> Q: How do antioxidants work against free radicals?
>
> A: They are the police force of the body that neutralizes dangerous
> free radical thugs.
>
> Q: Where do you get antioxidants?
>
> A: The most powerful anti-aging agents are in all kinds of fruits and
> vegetables. They are gold mines of antioxidants. (Also) olive oil is a
> favorite of mine. Olive oil and canola oil have anti-aging properties.
> And I am a passionate tea drinker. Black tea and green seem to be
> nearly identical in their antioxidant properities.
>
> I eat fish, and the oil in the fish - the Omega-3 fatty acids - turns
> out to be protective in aging. And I eat lots of garlic; it's packed
> with antioxidants.
>
> Q: But you don't think you can get enough antioxidants from food. Do
> you really take all 10 supplements you recommend in the book?
>
> A: Oh yes, I generally take at least 10 supplements a day. Some are
> more important than others. And there are at least five that are most
> critical: a multiple vitamin/mineral tablet, vitamin E, vitamin C,
> beta carotene and chromium. (The remaining five are calcium, zinc,
> selenium, magnesium, coenzyme Q-10.) But taking any of them is going
> to help.
>
> Q: Do you think swallowing 10 supplements a day is reasonable?
>
> A: I think so. Americans spend billions of dollars and enormous energy
> trying to stay young. Spending 30 seconds a day to take a dollar's
> worth of youth-preserving pills is very minor, especially considering
> the potential benefits.
>
> Q: Your book doesn't mention exercise, but isn't it critical to any
> anti-aging plan?
>
> A: Certainly exercise is very important, as is stopping smoking
> because the biggest intake of free radicals comes from smoking. But my
> book doesn't cover exercise. This is the dietary part of the plan for
> delaying aging.
>
> By Nanci Hellmich, USA TODAY
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