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Article: STUDY CONFIRMS BENEFITS OF CRANBERRY JUICE
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- The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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- October 8, 1998
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BOB GROVES, Staff Writer
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
10-08-1998
STUDY CONFIRMS BENEFITS OF CRANBERRY JUICE
By BOB GROVES, Staff Writer
Date: 10-08-1998, Thursday
Section: NEWS
Edition: All Editions -- 2 Star B, 2 Star P, 1 Star Early
People have long believed that a glass of cranberry juice a day
helps keep urinary infections away, and now Rutgers University
scientists say they have discovered why.
Chemical compounds in cranberries called condensed tannins were
found to prevent E. coli bacterium from attaching to cells in the
urinary tract and causing infection, especially in women, according to a
Rutgers study published today in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Drinking a 10-ounce ...