| Oranges juice up
cancer protection
Orange-juice
supplementation cut tumor incidence in an animal study of
carcinogen-induced colon cancer.
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Fackelmann, K.A.
1994. Veggies may cut nonsmoker lung cancer risk. Science News
145(Jan. 8):23.
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Cancer protection from fruits and veggies. Science News 143(June
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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.
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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. |