Apples protect breast
March 3
March 3 – Apples have been linked to life and death since the beginning of history – and now a new study links them to breast cancer. According to a laboratory study, eating apples – many of them – may cut the risk of breast cancer by almost as much as 50 per cent. The conclusions come from a study of rats reported in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Researchers at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA, concluded that the equivalent of six apples a day reduced the risk of contracting breast cancer by 44 per cent. A single apple daily reduced the risk by as much as 17 per cent. Even when rats did develop the disease, the number of cancers they suffered were reduced by a least a quarter. Researcher Rui Hai Liu said it was likely that chemicals found in a wide range of fruit and vegetables were responsible for combating cancer. He said there were thousands of different chemicals in natural foods – making them far more potent than vitamin pills. He said: “Our findings suggest that consumers may gain more significant health benefits by eating more fruits and vegetables and whole grain foods than in consuming expensive dietary supplements, which do not contain the same array of balanced, complex components. “This balanced natural combination of phytochemicals present in fruits and vegetables cannot simply be mimicked by dietary supplements.”
source: englemed.demon.co.uk
