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Apple can protect against stomach cancer: Italian study
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-06-30 15:15
Eating at least two apples a day may reduce the risk of developing stomach
cancer, Italian media quoted a new study from the University of Naples as
reporting on Tuesday.
Italian researchers said in the study, soon to be published in the
prestigious international gastroenterology journal GUT, substances in apples
have a major protective effect on stomach.
They apparently achieve their beneficial effects by warding off damage
produced by free radicals, the culprits in a number of processes including aging
and the development of gastric tumors, the study aid.
The research team, led by Camillo Del Vecchio Blanco and Marco Romano of
Naples' Federico II University, found that the benefits of apple extracts were
due to their high content of anti-oxidants like catechin and chlorogenic acid.
The apple extract, along with the chlorogenic acid, was shown to inhibit the
growth of stomach cancer cells.
"The next stage is to move on to testing in humans and measuring the effect
of the active ingredients of apples as gastro- protective agents," Romano said.
"It is possible to conceive using these substances in other specific cases,
such as when patients have to take anti- inflammatory drugs."
"In this case the apple extracts reduce the negative effects that these
medicines have on gastric mucous, " he said.
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