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You are doing the right thing by taking fruits with high antioxidant levels. But if you would like to make things simpler there is a supplement called Isotonix OPC-3 that is now getting the title as the world’s most powerful antioxidant. It is a natural supplement containing grape seed extract, and red wine extract, and another powerful antioxidant called Pycnogenol which is a natural plant extract from the bark of the maritime pine tree which grows exclusively along the coast of southwest France. All three antioxidants are put into one supplement hence the name OPC-3. The supplement is in isotonic form so you receive superior delivery and absorption in your body. Isotonix OPC-3 can be found at

Two other excellent sources of antioxidants are:
Isotonix ORAC

And a supplement I use that is great for energy, working out, overall health, and antioxidants is called Isotonix Acai
Acai is a Berry found in the Amazon that provides a natural supply of energy along with many other benefits. The berry has caught the attention of people like Oprah, calling it one of the most nutritious and powerful foods in the world.

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I am like you…I want to plant things then deal with the problems later down the road as it happens. Yes Organic bug killers or deterrents are very good and found online, and in organic stores. That you will have look into. Many organic/Green sites are available via a google search and I can say one thing….that will keep you busy for awhile. GREEN is in big time and there are bzillons of info on the web. Many essential oils, mixed with household items are great for pests. A Garlic mixture is used for mosquitos and doing great to keep them out of yards. So good luck on your research. Because, you have so many items listed any of us would have to research quite awhile to give you definative help.

The UC Davis website has a lot of information on pests. It is a bit California specific. They offer many safe ways to deal with pests and diseases and can help you identify the problems you may have. They are very ecologically conscious (The city built a tunnel so frogs could migrate) and recommend heavy insecticides and herbicides only when it’s the only option. There are several pesticides that are environmentally safe to use.

There are plenty of organic pesticides out there that will get rid of insect pests. If I had to choose just one, I would use Neem Oil. It kills a wide variety of insects including whiteflies, aphids, various worms.
Other organic insecticides are more specific to certain insects. Bt is a naturally occuring bacteria that is harmful only to caterpillars. Useful for those little green worms on broccoli and other cruciferous veggies. There’s a form of Bt that is specific to potato bugs.

Diatomaceous earth is useful for killing beetles and other hard-shelled insects, including earwigs.

Apple trees are prone to many diseases and insect problems. You’d be wise to do a search for “growing apple trees” to learn more about them as there’s more involved with growing pretty apples than can be discussed on a limited forum like this. Subscribe to Organic Gardening magazine, do your research.

Science has shown that there are food molecules that protect us from oxidative stress on the cellular and molecular level. For example, The National Cancer Institute is studying phytochemicals, Phyto is the Greek word for plant or light.

Its important to know that phytochemicals are the pigment that form on fruits and vegetables to protect the seeds from the Ultra Violet damaging rays of our Sun.

We eat those phytochemicals and they do what anitoxidant vitamins and minerals cannot do, they move through the cell wall and enter the cell. They then snuff out free radicals by allowing the atom to borrow an ion so that the cell will not rust or prematurely age, thereby keeping cancerous cells from forming or metastasizing (a cell finding a new home to grow).

Rust is a great example of free radical damage. That is what aging is, its your cells rusting. Antioxidants help reduce that rust or premature aging.

Anyway, the National Cancer Institute launched a multi million dollar study to understand these new found food components to understand why they work and how they work.

You can drink all the commercially available green tea you want to, but it has oxidized by the time you, the consumer thinks you are getting any nutritional value. But, you are not.

Green tea that is carefully extracted and kept from oxidizing is expensive and is the kind that works.

For example, many products tested through ORAC are pro oxidative. Meaning, they are harmful. So, there is an exact science to discovering how high quality food molecules actually work within the human cell.

See resource link on ORAC (o).

By the way, High C is absolute junk. Its corn syrup and synthetic vitamin C added with a health claim. Eat a naval orange and you will get natural vitamin C that is in its actual food matrix that your body will utilize and nourish your cells.

If you looked into the orange with a high powered microscope, the center of a food matrix vitamin c is copper and the outer edges are the bioflavinoids that bind vitamin C as one component. All work in concert and all are needed for the cell to function properly… High C cannot provide what a naval orange can.

Having lived through many food fads in my long lifetime I tend to take them with a grain of salt. What is really powerful dietary information today will be proved wrong in a couple of years. Like most things look at who benefits from this fad.

My philosophy about food is to eat sparingly of a great variety of foods. That kind of diet should provide all of the things you need.

Life is just a bowl of cherries with pits!!

As you get older it’s like you’re being run over by a Mack truck.