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Alert: Beware of Dangerous Free Radicals

by: John Dawson

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Alert: beware of dangerous free radicals

Think of your body as an energy-using, cell-building factory. Like all factories, your body generates wastes as it operates. These wastes are dangerous molecules known as "free radicals". There's no way of avoiding free radicals, not only are they produced by your body, they're also part of the environment. Free radicals are produced by smoking, and by exposure to low-level radiation thrown off by electronic equipment.

Free radicals damage the body's cells and the cells' DNA. They deposit plaque in your arteries, constricting them. Researchers also believe that free radicals' damage leads to Alzheimers disease and some forms of cancer.

Antioxidants: the heroes which fight free radicals

All is not lost. Plant foods are rich in antioxidants, which inhibit oxidation, and are your body's front line of defence against free radicals. This means that any diet that's deficient in fruits and vegetables, and thus antioxidants, inevitably leads to disease.

With today's busy lifestyles, many people don't have the time to prepare nutritious meals, so they increase their intake of vitamins C, D, and E, because these vitamins are powerful antioxidants.

But are they powerful enough?

All antioxidants are not created equal

Antioxidants destroy the free radicals which damage cells, so the more powerful the antioxidants, the better.

Perfor-Max is unique in that it contains a special class of antioxidants called oligomeric proanthocyanadins (OPCs), which are found in apples, berries and grapes. These OPCs are much more powerful than those in their vitamin cousins. They're twenty times more powerful than the antioxidants in vitamin E, and 50 times more powerful than those in vitamin C.

What can the powerful antioxidants in Perfor-Max do for you?

Your body can�t operate properly if it's filled with free radical sludge. Eliminating free radicals ensures that your cells stay strong, reproduce properly, and that you age gracefully. The destruction of free radicals is implicated in many chronic diseases, notably allergies, circulatory problems, and destructive processes like inflammation and arthritis.

Perfor-Max helps to build muscles
Even bodybuilders often don�t understand how antioxidants help to build healthy muscles. Taking an antioxidant-rich product daily decreases free radicals promoting strong, healthy muscles � including a strong healthy heart muscle, and good eye muscles.

Muscles shrink with age: it's intriguing to think that some of the aging-related reduction in your body's muscle-mass may be related to unrestrained free radicals.

Strong muscles also help with joint problems. If you have problems with your knees, it's recommended that you exercise to develop your muscles to take the stress off your knees � your antioxidant-rich Perfor-Max will help.

Perfor-Max helps the brain

Because the brain is so metabolically active and the body's largest consumer of oxygen, it's attacked by free radicals. This is revealed in loss of memory and mood disturbances. Scientists know that antioxidants protect against and may even reverse the cognitive declines of the aged.

A recent study by a psychiatrist of OPC antioxidants on children at his clinic showed excellent results, with improved school performance and improved behaviour in children with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD).

Perfor-Max helps stress

Free radicals stress the body. An antioxidant supplement makes sense whenever you can feel the results of stress: in depression, mood swings, and unspecified aches and pains.

Perfor-Max helps relieve allergies

Allergies are reactions to factors in the environment, and allergens (the substances which cause allergies) can be in the air you breathe and in the food you eat, as well as whatever you're in contact with.

Antioxidants can act as an immune system boost, protecting you from allergens. They can also help to reduce the symptoms of an allergic reaction, like the swelling and inflammation of tissues in the nose and throat.

If you suffer from asthma or hayfever, take Perfor-Max daily.

About the author:
John has been involved in the health & wellness industry for a number of years. The human body requires good nutrition to renew, repair and rejuvenate itself on a daily basis.
John created from his experiences and personal success and now supplies cutting edge, scientifically backed nutritional products.

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Mom's Job Stress May Spread to Kids
by: Rita Jenkins

Low job satisfaction in working mothers increases the stress levels of their children, but allowing them to spend more time in childcare can help overcome these effects, according to new research published in Developmental Psychobiology.

Children whose mothers found their jobs emotionally exhausting or otherwise less rewarding had higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol than children whose mothers reported more enjoyment from their jobs, researchers found in a study involving more than 50 nursery school children.

Levels of cortisol in the evening were more than double in the children whose mothers experienced less job satisfaction. Placing those children in childcare would help to significantly reduce their stress, the research suggests.

The researchers also found that children from families that were either highly expressive or very reserved exhibited higher than average cortisol levels.

Greater support is needed for working mothers to help improve their job satisfaction and increase the availability of affordable childcare options, says the report.

More Time in Childcare

Dr. Julie Turner-Cobb, a health psychologist and senior lecturer at the University of Bath, Dr. Christina Chryssanthopoulou from the University of Kent and Dr. David Jessop, a neuroimmunologist at the University of Bristol collaborated on the study.

To measure cortisol levels, they took saliva samples in the morning and evening from 56 children aged three to four years old. They also surveyed mothers about their workplace conditions and home life over a six month period.

"Spending more time in childcare makes a big difference to the stress levels in children whose mothers have low job satisfaction," says Dr. Turner-Cobb.

"It can help protect children from the effects of their mother's low job quality and emotional exhaustion. Ensuring that mothers of young children have good support in the workplace is essential for supporting both mothers and their children," she adds.

"Improving the job satisfaction of working mothers means that they are less stressed themselves," says Dr. Jessop, "and extending the availability of affordable and adequate childcare may not only improve the quality of life for the mothers but, in doing so, may improve the long term health of their children."

Healthy Adaptation to Stress

Cortisol is a steroid hormone that regulates blood pressure and cardiovascular function and immune function. It also controls the body's use of proteins, carbohydrates and fats.

Cortisol secretion increases in response to stress, whether physical -- such as illness, trauma, surgery or temperature extremes -- or psychological. It is a normal and essential response without which we would not be able to function in everyday life.

When these levels remain high or become disrupted in some way over a prolonged period of time, however, they may have consequences for health. It is important to promote healthy adaptation to stress in children, and good quality childcare is one way of doing this, say the authors.

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