Research proved the anti-oxidant in grape can prevent from colon carcinoma

    Researchers discovered an anti-oxidant from blue berry and grape can protect the infestation from colon carcinoma. According to the research, the most common blue berry should be included in the “super anticancer food” list.

    The small-scale experiment in mouse discovered this compound can protect mouse from this kind of disease. Researchers injected 18 mice with one compound to simulate the formation of human colon carcinoma. Then just fed 9 mice balanced nourishment, and fed the rest mice an antioxidant named pterostilbene which extract from the berry in addition. After 8 weeks, the initial colon carcinoma symptom of mice fed with pterostilbene released 57% than mice without pterostilbene treatment.

    Last Sunday, in the American Chemical Society Annual Meeting in Chicago researchers reported that pterostilbene not only reduce the metastasis of colon carcinoma cells, but also inhibit the expression of some certain genes. Both two aspects are considered as the risk factors of colon carcinoma. Professor Bandaru Reddy, Bio-Chemistry Department, Rutgers University, New Jersey, said: this result emphasizes that we should take more berry in our daily diet.

    Researchers should take further study to evaluate how important role pterostilbene plays. However they indicated that berry can not only decrease cholesterol level, but also balance high saturated fat and high calorie western common diet which likely induce colon carcinoma. Besides, the researcher from Ohio State University said, they began clinical experiment to test whether blue berry can prevent the infringement from esophageal cancer and colon carcinoma.

    In the mice experiment, berry occupied 5% to 10% to the total diet, the tumor in the esophagus reduced 60%, colon tumor reduced 80% (max.). The researcher from University of Alabama said, the result of third round test shows the compound extracted from the grape seed can also protect human from the skin cancer. Overexposure in the UV will depress the capacity of immunologic system, and the material from the grape seed can recover its original function. This conclusion based on the mouse cell tube test.

    According to this report from Californian researcher, organic product can surely make people healthier. Through the comparison between the organic fruit and traditional cultivation fruit, they found that polyphenol in organic fruits greatly increased. Besides, antioxidant and Vitamin C also increased dramatically. The researchers of University of California said that both kinds of fruit are growing in the same farm with same climate and environment, which guarantee the accuracy of the experimental data.

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