Posted by BAHRAMERAD, at 02:04AM 09/05/08 :
Lemon Grass has Citral!: Proven in Israel to kill cancer sells while leaving normal cells healthy!
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A drink with as little as one gram of lemon grass contains enough citral to prompt cancer cells to commit suicide in the test tube. Israeli researchers find way to make cancer cells self-destruct at Ben Gurion University.
At first, Benny Zabidov, an Israeli agriculturalist who grows greenhouses full of lush spices on a pastoral farm in Kfar Yedidya in the Sharon region, couldn't understand why so many cancer patients from around the country were showing up on his doorstep asking for fresh lemon grass. It turned out that their doctors had sent them.
"They had been told to drink eight glasses of hot water with fresh lemongrass steeped in it on the days that they went for their radiation and chemotherapy treatments," Zabidov told ISRAEL21c. "And this is the place you go to in Israel for fresh lemon grass."
It all began when researchers at Ben Gurion University of the Negev discovered last year that the lemon aroma in herbs like lemon grass kills cancer cells in vitro, while leaving healthy cells unharmed.
The research team was led by Dr. Rivka Ofir and Prof. Yakov Weinstein, incumbent of the Albert Katz Chair in Cell-Differentiation and Malignant Diseases, from the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at BGU.
Citral is the key component that gives the lemony aroma and taste in several herbal plants such as lemon grass (Cymbopogon citratus), melissa (Melissa officinalis) and verbena (Verbena officinalis.)
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Posted by pkrf1end, at 06:26PM 09/04/08 and by 1 others:
Should the sports world replace human umpires with computers
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Disputes over line calls used to be one of the main joys of tennis”this, after all, is John McEnroes game. But fans rarely see players explode in rage anymore. In high-profile matches (i.e., those broadcast on TV), human umpires have largely been replaced by a machine called Hawk-Eye
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Posted by paul1e999, at 05:50PM 09/04/08 and by 1 others:
Why Soft Drinks Contribute to Obesity in America
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Is it a coincidence that the introduction of high fructose corn syrup in the 1970s coincided with a marked rise in obesity in the United States? Thus, leading to speculations that there might be a causal connection between High Fructose Corn Syrup consumption and weight gain.
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