7/13/05
An interesting news blurb on how one of the compounds that occur in tumeric, which is a main ingredients in curries, has been shown in laboratory tests to actually interfere with skin cancer (melanoma) cells. The studies were done at the University of Texas’s Department of Experimental Therapeutics M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. The compound in the tumeric is Curcumin and was found to suppress certain proteins that tumor cells rely on to keep themselves going.
Source: CNN/Reuters
