Now I'm doing my second visit (and experiment) to the list. Wonder if it
works? I got very surprised (pleasantly) when I found my mailbox full of
your mails. Didn't know thats how it works. Anyway, I'd like to know what
you people think is the most important trait in paleoeating. For instance, I
got a link to a site where they wrote about raw food - is that good, bad or
uninteresting? Could you also tell me what sorghum/milo is, or guar for that
matter? Guar has recently been added to bread here in Sweden and I get so
suspicious over theese new foodgroups. And I am glad that someone now has
shown that leaf herbs are good for you. It stands to reason, doesn't it? Do
you generally eat vitamin pills or supplements of some kind?
Eva
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From: "Theola Walden Baker" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2003 6:10 AM
Subject: Article Abstract


> http://www.nutrition.org/cgi/content/abstract/133/5/1286?etoc
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> Several Culinary and Medicinal Herbs Are Important Sources of Dietary
> Antioxidants
> Steinar Dragland, Haruki Senoo*, Kenjiro Wake, Kari Holte** and Rune
> Blomhoff**,2
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> The Norwegian Crop Research Institute, Apelsvold Research Station Div.
Kise,
> N-2350 Nes, Norway; * Department of Anatomy, Akita University School of
> Medicine, Akita 010-8543, Japan;  Minophagen Pharmaceutical Company, Tokyo
> 160-0004, Japan; and ** Institute for Nutrition Research, Faculty of
> Medicine, University of Oslo, Blindern, 0316 Oslo, Norway
>
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> 2To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail:
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> We assessed the contribution of culinary and medicinal herbs to the total
> intake of dietary antioxidants. Our results demonstrate that there is more
> than a 1000-fold difference among antioxidant concentrations of various
> herbs. Of the dried culinary herbs tested, oregano, sage, peppermint,
garden
> thyme, lemon balm, clove, allspice and cinnamon as well as the Chinese
> medicinal herbs Cinnamomi cortex and Scutellariae radix all contained very
> high concentrations of antioxidants (i.e., >75 mmol/100 g). In a normal
> diet, intake of herbs may therefore contribute significantly to the total
> intake of plant antioxidants, and be an even better source of dietary
> antioxidants than many other food groups such as fruits, berries, cereals
> and vegetables. In addition, the herbal drug, Stronger Neo-Minophagen C, a
> glycyrrhizin preparation used as an intravenous injection for the
treatment
> of chronic hepatitis, boosts total antioxidant intake. It is tempting to
> speculate that several of the effects due to these herbs are mediated by
> their antioxidant activities.
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> KEY WORDS: antioxidants . herbs . reductants . humans . oxidative stress
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