Fight Cancer with Dark Fruits & Veggies
Telegraph.co.uk reports that dark-colored fruits and vegetables may fight colon cancer. Anthocyanins, the compounds that give dark red, purple, and blue fruits and vegetables their color, were found to slow the growth of human colon cancer cells by 50-80%. Monica Giusti was the lead author of the study conducted at Ohio State University. Giusti said “there are more than 600 different anthocyanins found in nature.”
Anthocyanins extracted from purple corn proved to have the most potent cancer prevention.
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August 31st, 2007 at 8:51 am
Very interesting comments on such an important subject. I have just had this comment emailed to me recently. My wife and I were at the Cook Islands in Jan. 06 and I went to the factory there to buy some Noni. I am a firm believer in it and now I have my wife taking it too. When we worked in Nicaragua several years ago, there was a Noni plantation owned by a German pharmaceutical company. They were air shipping all fruit to Germany to attempt to isolate the compound in the fruit that inhibits cancer tumor growth. There is a research paper from Southern Illinois University showing some positive results with Noni on cancer tumor growth.