anti tumor, cancer/ cane workers

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Plant Phenolics

 

Epidemiological studies implicated high-saturated dietary fat and

protein as a risk factor for colon cancer and established that high

fiber, fruit and vegetable content is protective. The actual

protective agent is not the fiber itself, but the cell wall

components, phenolic polysaccharides and polyphenols. The protective

phenolic lignin and hemicellulose components are present in widely

different concentrations in the cell walls of various plants and are

released by bacterial enzymes in the human colon. Many of these

compounds have antioxidant, anti-mutagenic, anti-carcinogenic and

anti-inflammatory effects that may be responsible for their

anticancer effects. A readily available source for such phenolic

polysaccharides can be located in the nutritional and medical

practices. Sugar cane molasses, a widely used nutrient, was served

as a sweetener instead of purified sugar, stirred into milk and

eaten instead of jam or jelly. Blackstrap molasses, its most

concentrated form, was used for the therapy of a variety of

diseases, including cancer. Anecdotal evidence suggests that cancer

was very rare among sugar cane plantation workers who were regularly

consuming the raw brown sugar. Blackstrap molasses is rich in a

variety of essential minerals including iron, zinc, selenium,

magnesium and potassium as well as the majority of the vitamin B

complex, deficiencies of which confer a major cancer risk. Molasses

also contains high concentrations of amino acids and linoleic acid,

an essential lipid that has a documented anti-tumor effect.

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