The food we eat every day to us, provides the basis of our diet and the necessary processes that must occur in our bodies. Here are some of the macronutrients, carbohydrates, proteins and fats. These macro-nutrients but can be processed only in the cell when the food in addition of other nutrients, called micronutrients, contains. The intake of these micronutrients in the diet is necessary, because they do not or some of them can not always be produced in sufficient quantities by the body. Among the most important micronutrient groups include vitamins, minerals, trace elements, phytochemicals (carotenoids, flavonoids), essential fatty acids (especially fish oils) and amino acids. The functions of micronutrients in the human body is more than many and not all known or explored. Many micronutrients act as "coenzymes" whose task is to enzymes as biologicalcatalysts for all metabolic processes in the organism are required to activate too. Better known are the micronutrients as a so-called "free radicals" that are referred to as antioxidants.

"radicals" are aggressive and highly reactive compounds or metabolic products contribute to "radical". This can damage or destroy cells. Fall in the metabolism of free radicals, but these can be formed as, for example, by pollution, cigarette smoke, alcohol, drugs or intense sun exposure and by external influences. Free radicals are made for a certain number of chronic diseases with a responsible, such as arteriosclerosis, diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer's disease or eye diseases, such as the "cataracts. convert radicals into harmless substances, is the role of certain micronutrients. These are then called antioxidants, or even "radical." These antioxidants include, for example, theVitamin c or selenium. These antioxidants have to be supplied through the diet. More antioxidants you have read on the web site:

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