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Dr. Tammy Bray
Professor
Department of Human Nutrition and Food Management
College of Human Ecology
The incidence of Type I diabetes growing in
our population. To combat this trend, Ohio State's Dr. Tammy Bray
is researching strategies for stopping this disease before it
starts. She's doing it with a revolutionary new approach to protecting
health and preventing disease. It's rooted in the discovery of
the role played by antioxidants and oxygen free radicals in health
and disease. Antioxidants are chemical compounds found in fruits
and vegetables. They have a powerful ability to stamp out damaged
molecules in our bodies, which we call oxygen free radicals. We've
learned in recent years that free radicals are what cause disease
and aging in our bodies. The good news is, antioxidants can stop
oxygen free radicals. This new knowledge is as important to our
health today as was the discovery of antibiotics and microorganisms
in infectious disease in the past.
Dr. Bray's research is expected to contribute significantly to
our understanding of how diabetes develops. It will also lead
to the development of new food-based medicines that will ensure
that no one has to suffer from the debilitating effects of diabetes.
