Know Your Diet - "Epidemiological studies show that whole foods, including their antioxidants, are associated with better health. However, there is accruing evidence that mono or multi-vitamins may have a neutral-to-negative effects including mineral supplements when given therapeutically. Antioxidant can perturb important, controlled positive pro-oxidant effects including mitohormesis in post-exercise muscle, infection response and inflammation, and more recently, cancer prevention. In spite of evidence of efficacy, a multi-billion dollar business flourished for humans and animals."

Past and future corollaries of theories on causes of metabolic syndrome and obesity related co-morbidities part 2: a composite unifying theory review of human-specific co-adaptations to brain energy consumption. Archives of public health = Archives belges de santé publique, Vol. 72, No. 1. (2014), doi:10.1186/2049-3258-72-31 by Anne-Thea T. McGill