Antioxidants

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Story: You are an antioxidant traveling through the healthy human body. Fighting off germs
in the body and helping white blood cells.

Objective: Get through all of the levels fighting off germs.

Audience : ages 7 +

Members: Kate, Andrew, and Parker

Health Lesson: Antioxidants are substances that are capable of counteracting the damaging, but normal, effects of the physiological process of oxidation in animal tissue. Antioxidants are nutrients (vitamins and minerals) as well as enzymes (proteins in yourbody that assist in chemical reactions). They are believed to play a role in preventing the development of such chronic diseases as cancer, heart disease, stroke, Alzheimer's disease, Rheumatoidarthritis,and cataracts. A chart of the top five antioxidant foods are …