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Re:The Hacker News Sacred Cow: The Unhealthy Lifestyle of Th... by Liesmith on Monday May 19, 2014 @06:33AM (#7766719)
Why would he be ironic? Consuming too many antioxidants have been tested and turn out to have some pretty ugly negative effects, just like too much of anything else at all.
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Re:The Hacker News Sacred Cow: The Unhealthy Lifestyle of Th... by slavoingilizov on Monday May 19, 2014 @06:37AM (#7766729)
Care to show us such a test or study?
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Re:The Hacker News Sacred Cow: The Unhealthy Lifestyle of Th... by DanBC on Monday May 19, 2014 @06:42AM (#7766747)
http://www.badscience.net/2008/04/cliff-richard-gloria-hunni...

That links to a 2008 Cochrane review.

Here's the updated review: http://summaries.cochrane.org/CD007176/antioxidant-supplemen...

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Re:The Hacker News Sacred Cow: The Unhealthy Lifestyle of Th... by joel_perl_prog on Monday May 19, 2014 @06:50AM (#7766790)
Isn't the study (not the blog, because...honestly, who cares about a blog reference) about supplements, though?

My smoothie is made from whole foods, only.

Supplements are a very complicated thing. I can't even venture to say whether they're good or not, based on all the conflicting information.

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