turmeric gives yellow mustard the characteristic yellow color, so is it fair
to say Frenches fights cancer?

Wayne

>From: Don Wiss <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Paleolithic Eating Support List <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Business Week on curry
>Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 22:36:28 -0400
>
>July 25, 2005
>Developments to Watch
>Innovations
>Curry Power
>
>Curry really is a spice of life. It seems to protect people against
>Alzheimer's disease -- India has the world's lowest incidence of the
>ailment -- and is also a potent cancer killer, at least in test tubes. The
>latest evidence comes from the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer
>Center in Houston. It found that curcumin, one of the main biologically
>active chemicals in turmeric, not only inhibits the growth of melanoma
>cells in vitro but also induces the cells to commit suicide. The study, in
>the Aug. 15 issue of Cancer, comes on the heels of earlier reports that
>curcumin can kill breast and colon cancer cells.