Long Beach, February 12: Cabernet and chocolate are potent medicine for killing cancer, according to research presented here on Wednesday.
Red grapes and dark chocolate join blueberries, garlic, soy, and teas as ingredients that starve cancer while feeding bodies, Angiogenesis Foundation head William Li said at a prestigious TED Conference.
“We are rating foods based on their cancer-fighting qualities,” Li said. “What we eat is really our chemotherapy three times a day.”
The Massachusetts-based foundation is identifying foods containing chemicals that evidently choke-off blood supplies to tumours, starving them to death.
Li cited a Harvard Medical School study showing that men who ate cooked tomatoes several times weekly were 30% to 50% less likely to have prostate cancer.
“There is a medical revolution happening all around us,” Li said. “If we’re right, it could impact on consumer education, food service, public health, and even insurance agencies.”
—Agencies