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Article: Spice rack ... or medicine chest?(SPECIAL FEATURE)
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- Nutrition Action Healthletter
- Article date:
- October 1, 2007
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Can spices prevent cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's, arthritis, and other illnesses? Western science has been slow in getting to the spice rack (spices have been used to treat disease for thousands of years). Here's the latest on three spices that hold some promise.
Turmeric
If you've ever ordered curry at an Indian restaurant or swabbed a sandwich with yellow mustard, you've eaten turmeric, a spice that researchers are testing as a possible cure for cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and other ailments. Actually, it's not turmeric that has caught the interest of scientists. It's curcumin (pronounced curr-CUE-min), the compound ...