Fwd: Apple (with skin) a day may keep cancer away

[Guest guest]

One of the most interesting things about this article is that a mainstream

researcher is saying it's not just one isolated ingredient which is working

but the combination of the ingredients.

 

Victoria

 

>Apple (with skin) a day may keep cancer away

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> Thursday, 22 June 2000

> Apple (with skin) a day may keep cancer away

> By Lee Bowman

> SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE

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> If you want that apple a day to really count, you need to eat the

>skin, researchers report in a new study that tested the cancer-fighting

>activity of parts of red delicious apples.

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> Food scientists at Cornell University found that 100 grams of fresh

>apples with skins have an antioxidant activity equal to 1,500 milligrams of

>vitamin C, even though that much fruit contains only 5.7 milligrams of

>vitamin C. Antioxidants are compounds that eliminate reactive oxygen

>molecules thought to play a role in tumor growth.

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> In a letter to the journal Nature, Rui Hai Liu, assistant professor

>of food science, and colleagues described how apple extracts inhibited

>proliferation of colon cancer and liver cancer cells.

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> While medical and nutrition research focuses on trying to isolate a

>single antioxidant compound such as vitamins C or E or beta carotene, Liu

>wrote that " this concept is different. It turns out that none of those

>works alone to reduce cancer. It's the combination of flavanoids and

>polyphenols (natural plant chemicals known as phytochemicals) doing the

>work. The real health benefits come from a mixture. "

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> Growth of cultured colon cancer cells treated with 50 milligrams of

>apple extract (from the skins) were inhibited by 43 percent, while those

>treated with an extract from just the flesh of the apple were slowed by 29

>percent.

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