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Ginger, Tea May Fight Cancer, Studies Show
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ginger, green tea and a Chinese herb may all help prevent the development of
cancer, researchers told a conference on Tuesday.
[Golly gee, you mean that salesmen did not discover this?]
The experimental findings -- most coming from experiments on mice -- do not yet merit a change in
diet. But they do suggest there are some ways people may be able to further reduce their risk.
[Wow! Why aren't these money grubbing RealScientists rushing out and yelling that they have
discovered a cure of all cancers and selling this info for BigBucks?]
Smoking is the No. 1 cause of preventable cancer in many countries, including the United States, and
in the developed world experts are starting to agree that poor diet and a lack of exercise run a
close second.
[Uh-oh...I expect to see pharmaceutical company run exercise mills.]
But researchers speaking to a meeting on Phoenix of the American Association for Cancer Research
said they were keen to find ways to further lower the risk.
[They do not want to cash in on selling chemotherapy and surgery? How strange.]
"These studies are extremely important and must be continued to help us understand better ways of
preventing cancer which do not require extraordinary measures," Dr. Raymond DuBois of Vanderbilt
University in Nashville, who chaired the meeting, said in a statement.
[Or MLM schemes and scams.]
"We're hoping that, armed with this information, individuals will become more proactive about their
health on a daily basis, in consultation with their doctors."
[I thought that Eeeevil Organized medicien wanted to control everything.]
Ann Bode and Zigang Dong of the University of Minnesota used a ginger extract on mice infected with
human colon cancer cells. The specially bred mice almost always grow tumors.
[Now, that is maiming!]
But when fed extracts of -gingerol -- the substance that makes ginger spicy -- fewer mice grew
the tumors.
After 15 days, Bode and Dong counted 13 tumors in mice fed normal diets compared to four tumors in
mice fed the ginger extract before and after they were injected with tumor cells.
"As we continue to study the spice in other tumor areas, we hope it will translate into significant
anti-cancer properties for humans," Bode said in a statement.
{It also tastes good, not like yucky ginseng.]
A second group tested the Chinese medicinal herb, Scutellaria barbata or Ban Zhi Lian.
The team at Union College in Nebraska found it slowed the growth of prostate tumors in mice.
A team at the Arizona Cancer Center in Tucson had 118 heavy smokers drink at least four cups a day
of both green and black tea and measured a chemical called 8-OHdG, which the body releases in
response to DNA damage like the kind that can cause cancer.
Those who drank decaffeinated green tea for four months had a 31 percent reduction in 8-OHdG. Those
who drank black tea had no reduction.
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