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Have you been to the Statue of Liberty in New York City or seen it's pictures? What color is it? What color was it when it was built in 1875? Ok, no tricks here - it is green in color today and it was Dark golden (the color of Copper) when it was built. What happened since then to it? Why did it change the color? The natural process of oxidation turned it into green color. Our bodies have a ton of metals as well. Iron, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, copper and zinc are just some of them. They get oxidized as well. Statue of Liberty might look pretty green, but when the metals, hence the cells within our body get Oxidized there is nothing pretty or healthy about them. One of the by products of this oxidation process is free radicals. Free radicals are associated with every single fatal disease you have heard of. Deep fried foods, over cooked meals with oils that are probably good for greasing our bikes, Meat industry by-products ground up into sumptuous salamis and other proce...