FoodBozo.com » Papaya http://foodbozo.com Experiences, education, opinions, culture, & fun with food! Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:56:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The fruit with cancer-fighting properties http://foodbozo.com/2010/03/the-fruit-with-cancer-fighting-properties/ http://foodbozo.com/2010/03/the-fruit-with-cancer-fighting-properties/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:35:47 +0000 bozobouffe http://foodbozo.com/?p=604

MIAMI (AFP) – Researchers said Tuesday that papaya leaf extract and its tea have dramatic cancer-fighting properties against a broad range of tumors, backing a belief held in a number of folk traditions.

University of Florida researcher Nam Dang and colleagues in Japan, in a report published in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology, documented papaya’s anticancer effect against tumors of the cervix, breast, liver, lung and pancreas.

The researchers used an extract made from dried papaya leaves, and the effects were stronger when cells received larger doses of papaya leaf tea.

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