In addition, eating a larger variety of fruits and vegetables means that you are getting plenty of disease-fighting phytonutrients (plant-based nutrients) and antioxidants.

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Antioxidants are probably the most commonly cited magic nutrients in foods, despite the lack of evidence of their ability to miraculously affect health.

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Antioxidants have long been the rage in topical skin care, but those same nutrients work even better from the inside out.

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