Cancer-Fighting Cranberries

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Cancer-Fighting Cranberries

Dr. Michael Greger

 

Cranberries, one of only three commonly-eaten fruits native to North

America, have been shown to exert a wide variety of health benefits

including the prevention of urinary tract infections.[22] In 2002,

researchers dripped a number of fruit extracts on human liver cancer

cells in a Petri dish to see if any of them would slow down tumor

growth. Out of the near dozen common fruits they tried, the most

potent inhibitor of cancer growth was cranberries.[23] So in 2003,

researchers pitted cranberries against three other types of human

cancers--breast, cervical and prostate--and the cranberries won

again, significantly restraining cancer cell proliferation.[24] Now

UCLA researchers are back, this time testing cranberries against a

whole panel of 9 different human cancer cell lines.

 

Sprinkling just a few millionths of a gram of powdered cranberries on

human oral, colon and prostate cancer cells brought their growth to a

screeching halt, inhibiting their proliferation as much as 99.6%. The

researchers concluded " The observed antiproliferative activities of

cranberry phytochemicals against tumor cells provide some basic

evidence for the potential anticancer effects of cranberry

polyphenols and suggest that studies of cranberry extracts should be

carried out... ultimately in human cancer prevention trials. " [25]

 

What do you do with cranberries though (other than sauce, that is)?

Check out

http://vegweb.com/recipes/fruit/index-fruit-cranberries.shtml

for some healthy cranberry recipes. I'm sipping some blended into my

flax smoothie right now as I type.

 

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