Antioxidant of the future.(goodnews)(Brief Article)

Working on the frontiers of nutrition, an international scientific team bas developed a new class of antioxidant--molecules that counteract the damaging effects of oxygen in the body, which might help prevent cancer, heart disease and even signs of premature aging.

A group of chemists at Vanderbilt University in Nashville developed a host of new molecular compounds by starting with a-tocepherol (the most active form of vitamin E) and removing carbon atoms and adding nitrogen atoms. The scientists then sent the various forms of the new molecules--called pyridinols--to the University of Bologna in Italy for antioxidant testing.

Sources tell us those early results have just come back. And they're bound to drop jaws.

The best pyridinols created by the Vanderbilt chemists are as much as 100 rimes more effective than vitamin E--the current antioxidant standard.