date:Sep 25, 2012
ffects, explained Wolk.
Study details
Wolk and her team followed 32,561 Swedish women aged 49-83 from September 1997 through December 2007.
All women completed a food-frequency questionnaire in which they were asked how often, on average, they consumed each type of food or beverage during the last year.
The team then calculated estimates of total antioxidant capacity from a database that measures the oxygen radical absorption capacity (ORAC) of the most common. The women were categorized int