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Like all the cells of your body, your skin cells need oxygen. It is the very basis of animal life, including ours. But oxygen is biology’s double-edged sword. As sunlight slowly bakes your skin, oxygen molecules often become extremely unstable. They pick up too many electrons or carry electrons in unstable orbits. These destabilized oxygen molecules are called free radicals.

The Department of Agriculture’s promotional posters used to list milk as the first group and meat as the second. Grains got a group, and fruits and vegetables had to share a group. Because livestock products were assigned two of the four groups, menus developed under this plan were often loaded with fat and cholesterol. That is how an entire generation learned to eat, and how they, in turn, raised their children.

A mountain of research has shown that food plays an important role in cancer of the breast, colon, prostate, and other organs, and can increase or decrease the likelihood of survival of cancer patients.