Department of Physics, College of Science, UoH held a national workshop on Food and Antioxidants on March 26th, 2023, at central Library Hall. The workshop consists of two sessions.
The first session presented by Assistant Lecturer Mr. Amjad Mahmood in which he shed some light on the danger of formation of free radicals in the human body and getting infected with various disease due to that. He mentioned that Cancer is salient free radical diseases, the breast cancer was taken as an example.
The second session was presented by Lecturer Mr. Dara Mahmood Qadir in which he pointed out to the factors that they act as a natural “off” switch for the free radicals which reduce or prevent the danger of these free radicals on human body via Antioxidant.
At the same time, instruction were given to the participants how to enhance the activity of antioxidants through eating plant-based foods that are the best source of antioxidants, especially fruits and vegetables, also he highlighted other factors that affect the human health such as good nutrition’s, sleep, , hormones, environment , psychology, happiness, depression and drinking water .