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Old 10-30-2003, 01:38 PM   #43 (permalink)
bryanc
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Umm...random?

Seriously folks, there might be some very valid science behind the scanner. I just don't know where to find it (and I'm not willing to spend the time searching for it). And if we knew what the minimum levels of anti-oxidants required for "health" were, and if this machine could detect them accurately, this would be a very valuable tool. But the reality seems to be that we don't know whether you need X concentrion in your blood or Y concentration in your urine. It's not like anti-oxidants and free-radicals are like cholesterol numbers yet.

Maybe it'll be like the medicine ball--shoved away in a corner for decades until one day, a clever marketer makes it "NEW" and potentially "IMPROVED", and everyone will be using one or at least want to have one (though how you improve a medicine ball, I'm sure I have no idea).
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