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Re:Six Ways to Boost Brainpower: Exercise, Diet, Stimulants,... by gravitycop on Friday January 30, 2009 @12:42PM (#458367)
We hear a lot about the benefits of antioxidants, but I get the sense that people think they're only found in special foods.

Antioxidants are found in high levels in hundreds of different culinary herbs and spices. The point, throughout human history, of adding herbs and spices to foods, besides flavoring those foods, was to preserve.

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Re:Six Ways to Boost Brainpower: Exercise, Diet, Stimulants,... by silentbicycle on Saturday January 31, 2009 @08:53AM (#459545)
Also, one of the biggest sources of antioxidants in the foods Americans commonly eat is coffee. (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9105892/)
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