More good news for garlic lovers… Garlic is good for the heart, as we saw in the recent e-Alert "Garlic To Go" (11/7/07). New research reveals that this spicy vegetable might also be a cancer fighter. When a University of South Australia team assembled the results of a decade of garlic studies, they found substantial evidence that garlic offers protection from colorectal cancer (CRC) development. Among their findings: - A meta-analysis of seven studies showed a 30 percent reduction in the risk of CRC among subjects with a high intake of garlic compared to no garlic intake
- Another individual study showed that CRC patients who included aged garlic extract in their diets reduced the size and number of colon adenomas Previous animal research has suggested that the active ingredients of garlic may inhibit cancer development.
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"Garlic May Protect Against Colon Cancer" Heather Granato, Natural Products Insider, 10/8/07, naturalproductsinsider.com
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