References & Sources

Oranges juice up cancer protection

Orange-juice supplementation cut tumor incidence in an animal study of carcinogen-induced colon cancer.

References:

Miyagi, Y. . . . and M.R. Bennink. 1999. Inhibition of azoxymethane induced colon cancer by orange juice. Meeting of the American Institute for Cancer Research. September. Washington, D.C.

Further Readings:

Fackelmann, K.A. 1994. Veggies may cut nonsmoker lung cancer risk. Science News 145(Jan. 8):23.

______. 1993. Cancer protection from fruits and veggies. Science News 143(June 5):358.

Manners, G.D., and S. Hasegawa. 1999. Squeezing more from citrus fruits. Chemistry and Industry (July 19):542.

Raloff, J. 1996. Juicy anticancer prospects. Science News 149(May 4):287.

______. 1986. New route to sweet navel orange juice. Science News 130(Sept. 20):190.

______. 1985. Fighting a juice’s bitter end. Science News 128(Aug. 10):89.

So, F.V. . . . and K.K. Carroll. 1996. Inhibition of estrogen-positive MCF-7 human breast cancer cell proliferation by citrus and other naturally-occurring flavonoids (Abstract 2826). FASEB Journal 10(March 8):A490.

Sources:

Maurice R. Bennink
Michigan State University
Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition
East Lansing, MI 48824-1224

Luke K.T. Lam
LKT Laboratories
2233 University Avenue, West
St. Paul, MN 55114

Gary D. Manners
U.S. Department of Agriculture
REE-ARS-PWA-WRRC-PC&E
800 Buchanan Street
Room 2136
Albany, CA 94710-0000

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 11, September 11, 1999, p. 166. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.