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Article: "Designer" foods: tomorrow's answer to breast cancer prevention?
- Article from:
- Nutrition Health Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 1993
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BUFFALO, NEW YORK: Epicures may call it the "stinking rose," but garlic by any other name will still carry that heady aroma -- potent enough to keep vampires -- and perhaps even a disease or two -- at bay.
Selenium-enriched garlic is just one of the "designer foods" being tested as a cancer preventative by Clement Ip, Ph.D., a breast cancer researcher in Roswell Park Cancer Institute's Division of Breast Surgery, Department of Surgical Oncology. These days, Dr. Ip's laboratory smells like an Italian restaurant.
In one recent study, Dr. Ip discovered that garlic -- enriched by the anticancer agent selenium -- protected animals against breast tumors.
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