新聞周刊瘋了，說抗氧化劑對健康不好

新聞周刊瘋了，說抗氧化劑對健康不好
Newsweek goes insane, says antioxidants bad for health
Saturday, February 05, 2011
by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer
Translation by Autumnson Blog

(NaturalNews) Just when you think you've heard it all, a major mainstream media source goes off the deep end and says that natural antioxidants can kill you. Yes, you heard that right. Citing a few sketchy studies that contradict the bulk of published research on the subject, a report in Newsweek, presumably intended to be taken seriously, actually alleges that the antioxidants found naturally in fruits, vegetables, and various superfoods, are dangerous to your health. And you just might want to stop taking them, the report humorously states.
（NaturalNews）剛在你認為你已聽說過這一切的時候，一個主要主流媒體來源，卻走離深水區並說天然抗氧化劑可以殺死你。是的，你確聽到那。一份在新聞周刊的報告援引了幾項粗疏的研究，那是抵觸大部分在該主題的發佈研究，據推測是打算認真對待，實際上聲稱天然地存在於水果、蔬菜、和各種保健品的抗氧化劑，是對您的健康有危險，和你也許會想停止服用，報告幽默地指出。
Of course, the idea that natural antioxidants are harmful to health is complete nonsense, as countless studies have shown they boost immunity, prevent oxidative damage, protect against the negative effects of aging, and generally improve overall health (http://www.naturalnews.com/antioxidants.html...). Nevertheless, some in the mainstream media seem hellbent on slandering the very nutritional components that give us life, while remaining largely silent about the numerous detriments brought about by conventional medical interventions like pharmaceutical drugs.
當然，該想法即天然抗氧化劑是對健康有害完全是一派胡言，因為無數的研究已證明它們增強免疫力、預防氧化損傷、防止老化的負面影響，並一般會改善整體健康（http://www.naturalnews.com/antioxidants.html...).然而，在主流的一些媒體似乎不顧一切地誹謗該給我們生命的非常營養的成分，而仍然大部分保持沉默對有關許多傳統醫學干預像藥廠藥物所帶來的利弊。
The Newsweek piece quotes a British "chemist and science writer" named David Bradley as saying that "oxidizing agents," also known as free radicals, are a "front-line of immune defense against pathogens and cancer cells." He goes on to claim that because antioxidants eliminate these free radicals, they are damaging to health.

But the foundational science behind both antioxidants and the oxidative agents they target completely contradicts Bradley's unfounded statement. Oxidative stress causes the body's cells to become damaged, and this cell damage leads to a host of chronic diseases, not to mention rapid aging and health deterioration. It is the antioxidants that scavenge and root out these damaging offenders and protect the body from harm, not the other way around as the Newsweek piece suggests.

What the report suggests is to eliminate the very components needed by the body to protect against things like heart disease and cancer, in order to protect against heart disease and cancer. It literally makes no sense at all. And urging people to avoid antioxidants based on this flawed hypothesis is nothing more than highly irresponsible conjecture, which is best ignored for the sake of public health.

Sources for this story include:
http://www.anh-usa.org/newsweek-pub...


http://www.naturalnews.com/031218_Newsweek_antioxidants.html