Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals in the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases

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The antioxidant defense system comprise, endogenous enzymatic and exogenous nonenzymatic nutrients. The dietary antioxidant nutrients can either be water soluble or lipid soluble. There are also other dietary constituents that may have either direct antioxidant activity or indirect antioxidant activity such as trace elements that are constituents of antioxidant enzymes.