Saturday, March 3, 2012

Antioxidants


Antioxidants are substances that may protect our cells against the effects of free radicals. Free radicals are molecules produced when our body breaks down food, or by environmental exposures like tobacco smoke and radiation. Free radicals can damage cells, and may play a role in heart disease, cancer and other diseases.
Oxidation reactions can produce free radicals, which start chain reactions that damage cells. Antioxidants terminate these chain reactions by removing free radical intermediates, and inhibit other oxidation reactions by being oxidized themselves.

Friday, March 2, 2012

Maida Vs Wheat


Maida is made from wheat. When you grind wheat grains in a mill you obtain wheat flour and when the wheat flour is pressed through a very fine sieve you obtain Maida. Maida is refined wheat flour. Wheat flour has the goodness of bran and fiber and therefore healthy. Maida is very refined wheat flour with all the bran removed and is pure carb.