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June 30, 2010 - PRLog -- What is the Definition of Antioxidant?
The definition of Antioxidant is as follows:
Definition: An enzyme or other organic molecule that can counteract the damaging effects of oxygen in tissues. Although the term technically applies to molecules reacting withoxygen, it is often applied to molecules that protect from any free radical (molecules with unpaired electron).
This definition was found at chemisty.about.com

What Do Antioxidants do?
Antioxidants slow down and sometimes even prevent the oxidation of other molecules. When molecules oxidize, they can create free-radicals or cellular bi- products.
Having excess free-radicals in the body can be very harmful on our cellular structure.
For the definition of free-radicals you can visithttp://www.thefreedictionary.com/free+radical

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