congratulations to white scientists for catching up: hindu food is the best food
harmony
cancer cells, scientists have shown.
The chemical - curcumin - has long been thought to have healing powers and
is already being tested as a treatment for arthritis and even dementia.
Now tests by a team at the Cork Cancer Research Centre show it can destroy
gullet cancer cells in the lab.
Cancer experts said the findings in the British Journal of Cancer could help
doctors find new treatments.
Dr Sharon McKenna and her team found that curcumin started to kill cancer
cells within 24 hours.
'Natural' remedy
The cells also began to digest themselves, after the curcumin triggered
lethal cell death signals.
Dr McKenna said: "Scientists have known for a long time that natural
compounds have the potential to treat faulty cells that have become
cancerous and we suspected that curcumin might have therapeutic value."
Dr Lesley Walker, director of cancer information at Cancer Research UK,
said: "This is interesting research which opens up the possibility that
natural chemicals found in turmeric could be developed into new treatments
for oesophageal cancer.
"Rates of oesophageal cancer have gone up by more than a half since the 70s
and this is thought to be linked to rising rates of obesity, alcohol intake
and reflux disease so finding ways to prevent this disease is important
too."
Each year around 7,800 people are diagnosed with oesophageal cancer in the
UK. It is the sixth most common cause of cancer death and accounts for
around five percent of all UK cancer deaths.
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Peter Terpstra
> congratulations to white scientists for catching up: hindu food is the best
> food.
Very good news, now I no why I like curry so much :-)
P.
hari....@indero.com
stand up to close inspection.
The tuber containing turmeric was cultivated by tribals all over s.
asia; and still is; long before those not of their hundreds of ethnic
groups arrived. The more
likely contrast in skin color is black and not the various other hues
of s. asia, if anyone cares because it is irrelevant.
It is likely more attention is being given to the food extract
Resveratrol then turmeric in the medical literature just now. It is
considered quite a miricle substance for its very wide application in
medicine as a potential for use. Those foods in which it is most found
are grape skins; and thus in wine; and highest of all in cocoa.
Those foods originate in central asia and central america respectively.
If it really matters to anyone the skin color of those areas can be
assigned.
Balwant Dixit
cancer is in tereesting but in practice it is unworkable. The suggested
effetive in vivo dose of Curcumin is about 500 mg (at least twice a day).
To get that much Curcumin in your body one will have to consume about
200 -250 gm of turmeric powder. So just watch what hapens to the color of
your skin with that much turmeric. Eating curry with turmeric is no answer
to treat cancer. Please note that Asian countries, in particular China,
India, Pakistan, and Japan, have the highest rates of esophageal cancer in
the world. All these places where turmeric is consumed with curries of all
kinds. ..............BND
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