Apple a day keeps the cancer away

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N APPLE a day really can cut the risk of colon cancer, a new study

suggests. French scientists conducted tests on rats which showed that

chemicals found in apples called procyanidins helped to prevent

changes that can lead to cancer.

Animals were injected with a substance known to trigger cancer of the

bowel. After six weeks, rats fed water and apple procyanidins had

about half as many pre-cancerous growths in their colons as did those

on a regular diet. Other experiments on cells in the laboratory

revealed that procyanidins inhibited tumour growth. The chemicals

triggered signals that caused apoptosis, a form of programmed

cell-death that is an important weapon against cancer.

Medical practitioners have long recognised the benefits of apples.

Recently, scientists have been looking at specific antioxidants such

as polyphenols that are mostly concentrated in apple skin.

Antioxidants help to prevent DNA and cell and tissue damage by mopping

up harmful unstable molecules called free radicals.

The scientists, including Dr Francis , of the French National

Institute for Health and Medical Research in Strasbourg, reported

their results yesterday at a conference of the American Association

for Cancer Research in Seattle.

Another study by American researchers investigated the effect of

eating vegetables on non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a type of lymph cancer.

They found that people who eat three or more servings of vegetables

per day — not including potatoes — are 40 per cent less at risk of

developing the disease than people who eat less than one serving a day.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1316648,00.html

We knew this didn't we/ ;-)

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Hi All,

Would the box cars full of apples required to obtain the same

phytochemical level in the blood stream kill you long before it

affected cancer of the bowels?

Cheers, Al Pater.

>

> N APPLE a day really can cut the risk of colon cancer, a new study

> suggests. French scientists conducted tests on rats which showed

that

> chemicals found in apples called procyanidins helped to prevent

> changes that can lead to cancer.

>

> Animals were injected with a substance known to trigger cancer of

the

> bowel. After six weeks, rats fed water and apple procyanidins had

> about half as many pre-cancerous growths in their colons as did

those

> on a regular diet. Other experiments on cells in the laboratory

> revealed that procyanidins inhibited tumour growth. The chemicals

> triggered signals that caused apoptosis, a form of programmed

> cell-death that is an important weapon against cancer.

>

> Medical practitioners have long recognised the benefits of apples.

> Recently, scientists have been looking at specific antioxidants such

> as polyphenols that are mostly concentrated in apple skin.

> Antioxidants help to prevent DNA and cell and tissue damage by

mopping

> up harmful unstable molecules called free radicals.

>

> The scientists, including Dr Francis , of the French National

> Institute for Health and Medical Research in Strasbourg, reported

> their results yesterday at a conference of the American Association

> for Cancer Research in Seattle.

>

> Another study by American researchers investigated the effect of

> eating vegetables on non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a type of lymph cancer.

> They found that people who eat three or more servings of vegetables

> per day — not including potatoes — are 40 per cent less at risk of

> developing the disease than people who eat less than one serving a

day.

>

>

> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1316648,00.html

>

> We knew this didn't we/ ;-)