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I can recommend Ben Goldacre's "Bad Science" - I read this in book form, any time I see "anti-oxidant" in the context of nutrition I also start to engage full skepticism mode.

Here is an article from Bad Science pointing to a Cochrane Collaboration review of the effectiveness of anti-oxidants:

http://www.badscience.net/2008/04/cliff-richard-gloria-hunni...

Michael Shermer, the author of Why People Believe Weird Things, also had an interesting direct experience with nutritional pseudo-science:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_People_Believe_Weird_Things




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