Interaction of dietary antioxidants in vivo: How fruit and vegetables prevent disease?

QJM: An International Journal of Medicine

Volumn 92, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 527-530

  Eastwood, M A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b Hill House   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; CAROTENOID; COUMARIC ACID; FLAVONOID; GLUTATHIONE; TOCOPHEROL; URATE;

CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COLON POLYP; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIETARY FIBER; DIETARY INTAKE; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FRUIT; HEALTH PROMOTION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LUNG CANCER; NOTE; NUTRIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; SOLUBILITY; STOMACH CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VEGETABLE;

EID: 0032824007     PISSN: 00335622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/qjmed/92.9.527     Document Type: Note

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