"History is a wonderful thing, if only it was true"
-Tolstoy

Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Eat Healthy, live longer

Early signs that good diet can prevent, maybe fight cancer.
An important read

Medicine | Better than cure | Economist.com:
Healthy living switches off genes that promote cancer

"That a healthy way of life can prevent cancer is well known. It is also becoming clear that clean living can help those who already have tumours to survive, and may even prevent the disease from coming back. A number of studies have shown these effects in breast cancer and colon cancer. But how they work at a molecular level remains a mystery."

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