GM food may prevent cancer
2002-03-18 11:57
London - Eating organic food may help prevent cancer, heart attacks and strokes, a team of scientists in Britain has claimed.
Researchers at Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary in Scotland
have found organic vegetable soup contains six times as much of a
natural acid which helps combat bowel cancer and hardening arteries as non-organic soups.
Biochemist John Paterson said "the higher levels of salicylic
acid in organic food means eating organic may be good for you", New Scientist magazine reported.
He added: "I'm not an evangelist for the organic food movement,
but there was a fairly substantial difference." Salicylic acid
occurs naturally in plants, which could explain why levels are
higher in organic vegetables grown without protection from
pesticides, the magazine suggested."
Earlier research by the team discovered significantly higher
concentrations of the acid in the blood of vegetarian Buddhist
monks compared with that of meat-eaters. Sapa-DPA
- SAPA