While scientific evidence suggests that ingesting antioxidants in a balanced diet helps in maintaining health and overcoming some diseases, there needs to be some clarifications made, especially regarding antioxidant supplements.
Sales of such supplements are expected to be USD3 billion (RM13.7 billion) this year, rising to over USD4.5 billion (RM20 billion) by 2028, so there is a strong incentive for pharmaceutical companies to keep pushing the sales of antioxidant supplements onto consumers, while at the same carefully omitting to provide two items of significant interest about such supplements.
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