- Edited and Published by S.K Nair Director Edutech Foundation - Bangalore
ORAC is Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity. Higher ORAC, Better will be oxygen carrying capacity of blood & Lungs oxygen capacity.
Why spices are important for our Life? Look at their ORAC Values....
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Clove : 314,446 ORAC |
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Cinnamon : 267,537 ORAC |
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Coffee. : 243000 ORAC |
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Turmeric : 102,700 ORAC |
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Cocoa : 80,933 ORAC |
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Cumin : 76,800 ORAC |
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Parsley : 74,349 ORAC |
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Tulsi : 67,553 ORAC |
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Thyme : 27,426 ORAC |
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Ginger : 28,811 ORAC |
OXYGEN CARRYING CAPACITY OF THE BLOOD CAN BE ENHANCED USING NATURAL FRUITS, VEGETABLES, SPICES, AND HERBS ....THAT HAVE HIGH ORAC VALUE!
OXYGEN RADICAL ABSORBANCE CAPACITY - PREVENTS: CANCERS, NEURO - DEGENERATIVE DISORDERS, DIABETES, & SO MANY CHRONIC CONDITIONS
Nature boosts immunity ...
High ORAC foods and Nutrients such as iron, vitamin C, Zinc, omega 3, Magnesium and Vitamin D helps boost our body's defense mechanism.
Apart from Tulsi, Ginger, Pepper, Turmeric, Cinnamon. Clove... herbs like Brahmi, Ashwagandha, Shatavari, Mulethi, Arjunarishtam, Peppermint, coriander seeds, cumin black seeds are catching attention of Scientists.
So, this is more than any vaccine one need for self-immunity. Without any side effects!
Foods that score high in an antioxidant analysis called ORAC may protect cells and their components from oxidative damage, according to studies of animals and human blood at the Agricultural Research Service's Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts in Boston. A.R.S is the chief scientific agency of the US Department of Agriculture.
ORAC, is a test tube analysis that measures the total antioxidant power of foods and other chemical substances.
Early findings suggest that eating plenty of high-ORAC fruits and vegetables--such as spinach and blueberries--may help slow the processes associated with aging in both body and brain.
In the studies, eating plenty of high-ORAC foods:
"It may be that combinations of nutrients found in foods have greater protective effects than each nutrient taken alone," said Guohua (Howard) Cao, a physician and chemist who developed the ORAC assay.
He and Prior have seen the ORAC value of human blood rise in two studies. In the first, eight women gave blood after separately ingesting spinach, strawberries and red wine--all high-ORAC foods--or taking 1,250 milligrams of vitamin C. A large serving of fresh spinach produced the biggest rise in the women's blood antioxidant scores--up to 25 percent--followed by vitamin C, strawberries and lastly, red wine
In the second study, men and women had a 13- to 15-percent increase in the antioxidant power of their blood after doubling their daily fruit and vegetable intake compared to what they consumed before the study. Just doubling intake, without regard to ORAC scores of the fruits and vegetables, more than doubled the number of ORAC units the volunteers consumed, said Prior.
Early evidence for the protecting power of these diets comes from rat studies by Prior, Cao and colleagues. Rats fed daily doses of blueberry extract for six weeks before being subjected to two days of pure oxygen apparently suffered much less damage to the capillaries in and around their lungs, Prior said. The fluid that normally accumulates in the pleural cavity surrounding the lungs was much lower compared to the group that didn't get blueberry extract.
Neuroscientist James Joseph and psychologist Barbara Shukitt-Hale at the center tested middle-aged rats that had eaten diets fortified with spinach or strawberry extract or vitamin E for nine months. A daily dose of spinach extract "prevented some loss of long-term memory and learning ability normally experienced by the 15-month-old rats," said Shukitt-Hale.
Spinach was also the most potent in protecting different types of nerve cells in two separate parts of the brain against the effects of aging, said Joseph.
More details on this research appear in an article in the of Agricultural Research, ARS' monthly magazine.
Source: https://www.ars.usda.gov/news-events/news/research-news/1999/high-orac-foods-may-slow-aging/
