A couple months back, the Paleo Diet newsletter had a piece on antioxidants. They stated that:
"The past decade has produced a large number of studies that assessed both the costs and benefits of antioxidant supplementation. Unfortunately, this research has shown that dietary supplementation with antioxidants may do more harm than good."
They also concluded that:
"Our Paleolithic ancestors had no access to concentrated forms of pure antioxidants like those in modern supplements. They got all their vitamins (including antioxidants) and minerals from food they hunted or gathered, or, in the case of vitamin D, from sunlight.
Given our present knowledge about the apparent lack of benefit from consuming antioxidants as supplements, it is probably best to get antioxidants from fruits and vegetables, especially those grown organically in healthy soils."
This is very interesting. This would certainly cut down on a person's supplement spending! The only supplement that they really recommended is Vitamin D, in the amount of 2,000 IU per day for adults.
