COLON CANCER

COCOA COULD HELP PREVENT COLON CANCER

A new study has indicated that eating cocoa could help to prevent intestinal complaints linked to oxidative stress, including the onset of colon cancer.

Scientists from the Institute of Food Science and Technology and Nutrition (ICTAN) recently published a paper in the journal Molecular Nutrition & Food Research about a study that supports the idea that consuming cocoa helps to prevent intestinal complaints linked to oxidative stress.

“Being exposed to different poisons in the diet like toxins, mutagens and procarcinogens, the intestinal mucus is very susceptible to pathologies,” said María Ángeles Martín Arribas, lead author of the study and a researcher at ICTAN.

She said foods such as cocoa are rich in polyphenols, which seem to play an important role in protecting against disease.

The full title of the paper is: ‘Cocoa-rich diet prevents azoxymethane-induced colonic preneoplastic lesions in rats by restraining oxidative stress and cell proliferation and inducing apoptosis,’ Molecular Nutrition & Food Research, 55:1895-1899, December 2011.

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