AOk For Life

AOk Drinks are designed to help you take control of your health and wellbeing. Small changes to your diet and lifestyle each day will help you to feel and look better. Drinking just one 250ml bottle of AOk provides the recommended daily amount of antioxidants, which have a major impact on our wellbeing and are vitally important in maintaining optimum health, helping to render free radicals harmless to the body. .

Free radicals are highly active and dangerous chemical groups that are unavoidable. Every day our bodies are exposed to vast numbers of free radicals. Their destructive actions on the body are known as oxidation (hence the name antioxidant). Free radicals play a role in the development of many diseases as a result of the degeneration of body tissues. This tissue degeneration also contributes towards ageing.

Examples of more commonly known disease conditions that free radicals contribute to include:

• Cardiovascular disease
• Cateracts
• Cancer
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Strokes

Free radicals are produced in many ways; for example, every breath you take creates free radicals from chemical residues of oxygen used by your body. This means that the air we breathe to stay alive creates harmful by-products that can contribute towards ageing and disease.

Fortunately, nature has equipped our bodies with special antioxidant substances that are produced to neutralise the harmful effects of free radicals. These, in conjunction with antioxidant substances obtained from a healthy, fresh food diet containing plenty of multi-coloured vegetables and fruits, help to prevent damage and degeneration of our body tissues by free radicals.

Unfortunately, free radicals are not just produced as a result of breathing oxygen.

Examples of other sources of free radicals include:

• Exposure to excessive ultra-violet radiation from sunlight or tanning booths
• Exposure to pollution
• Exercise, especially intense and regular exercise
• Eating certain foods such as burnt carbonised food
• Certain viruses
• Normal cellular functions in the body e.g. the manufacture of proteins

Although your body is able to produce powerful antioxidants to help control free radicals, the many ways they are produced means that their numbers can overwhelm the body’s ability to control them. If this happens we start to see accelerated damage to cells, which can contribute to premature ageing and disease.

It makes sense to top up with as many different antioxidants from our diet as we can. AOk has been shown in industry standard tests to provide outstanding antioxidant levels in just one 250ml bottle. Research published in 2003 in the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry by Ronald L Prior has shown that optimum daily intake of antioxidants is between 3,000 and 5,000 ORAC units.

The Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC) test is one of the main industry standard tests for antioxidant strength.

In this test AOk scored 3,600 ORAC units per 250ml. This is because it provides a powerful combination of multiple antioxidant substances making it an exceptional antioxidant drink.

Drinking a 250ml bottle of AOk every day is a quick, easy and delicious way to ensure that you supplement your daily antioxidant needs.