A critical and informed look at the merits and limitations of nutritional antioxidant supplementation in the general population.

i). Oxygen, the breath of life or oxygen, the first toxic oxidizing air pollutant ii). Metals and oxygen: Respiration, oxidation, and oxygen toxicity iii). Antioxidants: elixirs of life or media hype iv) Antioxidant vitamins and nutrients. v). Oxidative stress vi). Free radicals and antioxidants in ageing and disease: Fact or fantasy? vii). Free radicals and cardiovascular disease

John M. C. Gutteridge , Professor, Critical Care Unit, National Heart and Lung Hospital, London, Barry Halliwell , Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of London King's College and Research Professor, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of California at Davis, USA

`comprehensive, in-depth ... aimed at the more specialist reader' New Scientist, 2 December 1995 |d 14/12/1995