Healthnotes Newswire Article Reports Smoking generates free radicals in the body, causing cell damage that can sometimes lead to cancer. A study found that smokers might protect themselves from developing lung cancer by eating foods that are rich in antioxidants called flavonoids. Quit Smoking Now — The Best Bet for Better Health Smoking increases the risk for several … [Read more...] about Antioxidants May Protect Smokers from Lung Cancer
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Recent Smoking Study: Tropical Mushroom Extract Fights Cancer
An April press release from Cancer Research UK reports that an extract of the mushroom Phellinus linteus has been found to halt the growth of breast cancer cells in vitro. Previous studies have also shown the species to be effective against prostate, skin, and lung cancer cells, but up until now nobody knew how it worked. Researchers at Methodist Research Institute in … [Read more...] about Recent Smoking Study: Tropical Mushroom Extract Fights Cancer
Small-Cell Lung Cancer and Green Tea
By Jeni Baker - Green tea data show promise in treating small-cell lung carcinoma: Ingredient brings about cell death by reducing activity of key enzyme The statistics are sobering. Small-cell lung carcinoma (SCLC), which represents 15-20 percent of all lung cancer cases, is fatal within five years in more than 85 percent of the patients who develop it. And because the … [Read more...] about Small-Cell Lung Cancer and Green Tea
FDA Attacks Complementary and Alternative Health Care
Taken From: Learning Herbs I just spent three days reading, re-reading, researching, and discussing the proposed FDA guidelines for "Complementary and Alternative Medicine" with two FDA attorneys. You can download a copy of this proposal for yourself below. When I first heard about this FDA attack on complementary and alternative health care, I considered it another … [Read more...] about FDA Attacks Complementary and Alternative Health Care
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