News tagged with bioactive compounds

More evidence that spicing up broccoli boosts its cancer-fighting power

Teaming fresh broccoli with a spicy food that contains the enzyme myrosinase significantly enhances each food's individual cancer-fighting power and ensures that absorption takes place in the upper part of the digestive system ...

Health Sep 13, 2011 | 5 / 5 (5) | 1 |

Peaches, plums, nectarines give obesity, diabetes slim chance

Peaches, plums and nectarines have bioactive compounds that can potentially fight-off obesity-related diabetes and cardiovascular disease, according to new studies by Texas AgriLife Research.

Medical research Jun 18, 2012 | 5 / 5 (4) | 0

As colorectal cancer gets more aggressive, treatment with grape seed extract is even more effective

(Medical Xpress)—When the going gets tough, grape seed extract gets going: A University of Colorado Cancer Center study recently published in the journal Cancer Letters shows that the more advanced are co ...

Cancer Jan 17, 2013 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0 |

Watermelon reduces atherosclerosis in new study

In a recent study by University of Kentucky researchers, watermelon was shown to reduce atherosclerosis in animals.

Health Oct 27, 2011 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 1

Compounds in mate tea induce death in colon cancer cells

Could preventing colon cancer be as simple as developing a taste for yerba mate tea? In a recent University of Illinois study, scientists showed that human colon cancer cells die when they are exposed to the approximate number ...

Cancer Jan 23, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Scientists increase the success rate of tooth implants

Elderly or people with osteoporosis, smokers, diabetics or people who have had cancer are sometimes not eligible to receive dental implants as their bones are unable to correctly integrate the new prostheses ...

Medical research Jan 21, 2013 | 3 / 5 (1) | 0