| When you receive the Seal you will begin to eat | | | | added before and after cooking the turkey, and at |
| healthier foods. Yet even if you do eat foods high in | | | | both those meals the subjects drank one glass of |
| fat, new scientific studies show how eating some | | | | wine after the meal. |
| healthy foods along with them can reduce their bad | | | | Researchers measured the levels of malondialdehyde |
| effects on your body. | | | | (MDA) in the subjects at different times before and |
| Researchers are working on prescribing additives to | | | | after eating those different meals. MDA is the |
| meals. These additives would reduce the harmful | | | | "biomarker" for oxidative stress. |
| effects of a bad meal on the body. Foods high in fat | | | | Free radicals degrade lipids (fats) in cell membranes, |
| have an immediate harmful effect on the body. | | | | thus damaging the cells. The end-result of this |
| When you eat a fatty meal, like a fast-food meal, your | | | | degradation and damage is the production of MDA. So |
| body afterward experiences a period of oxidative | | | | when MDA is present, it shows there has been cell |
| stress. When oxidative stress happens your body can | | | | damage (oxidative stress) in the body. |
| be damaged on a cellular level. | | | | Researchers found that there was nearly five times |
| Oxidative stress happens when reactive oxygen is | | | | as much MDA in the body after the meal of just the |
| produced in the body (after a fatty meal for instance.) | | | | turkey meat. But the meals with wine added showed |
| If your body is capable of fighting the reactive oxygen | | | | no MDA, indicating that there had been no cell damage |
| then your cells will not be damaged. | | | | occurring. |
| But a fatty meal alone will cause oxidative stress | | | | So you can eat fatty meals without immediate cell |
| within the body, and without anything else added to the | | | | damage to your body if you include antioxidants, |
| diet, free radicals will damage cells in the body. This is | | | | especially polyphenols. Polyphenols are found in fruit, |
| where antioxidants come to the rescue. | | | | tea, wine (and beer), chocolate, and some nuts and |
| Antioxidants fight the free radicals and stop them from | | | | vegetables. |
| damaging your cells. One key kind of antioxidant is | | | | When you are sealed you will begin to take better |
| polyphenols, which were used in this study. The | | | | care of your health. You can do most of the work by |
| polyphenols helped stop the toxic reaction in the body | | | | changing your diet. You need to eat healthier food and |
| after a fatty meal. | | | | eat less food at the same time. |
| In the study, men and women were fed turkey with | | | | It is not surprising that wine is shown to be so |
| water (in the control group.) The other meals were | | | | protective when you eat something else along with it |
| turkey with polyphenols added before and after | | | | that tries to damage your body. Jesus called the wine |
| cooking. | | | | of the Last Supper His Blood. |
| The polyphenols in the study were in wine that was | | | | |