While there are many factors that determine the level of free radical activity and damage, it is usually those factors that are ever-present over a long period of time that present the greatest risk. So it is most likely that your daughter who spends most of her time in high levels of airborne pollution, surrounded by regular background noise and possibly drawn into a frenetic pace of life, has a high risk of excessive free radical activity and associated damage.

 

Of course this is not to say that folk living in the 'bush' are free of risk. The stresses of rural life and possible exposure to inappropriate chemicals, for example, can also be good reason to protect with antioxidants.