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Tomatoes can Slow the Growth of Cancer

Posted: 02/02/2012

Researchers in the UK have said an ingredient present in cooked tomatoes has been found to slow the growth of prostate cancer cells in laboratory tests.

A team from the School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences at the Univers...

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Cutting salt 'should be global priority'

Posted: 12/08/2011

BBC News

The UN must make reducing salt intake a global health priority, say UK scientists.

Writing in the British Medical Journal they say a 15% cut in consumption ...

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Low-calorie diet offers hope of cure for type 2 diabetes

Posted: 09/08/2011

People who have had obesity-related type 2 diabetes for years have been cured, at least temporarily, by keeping to an extreme, low-calorie, diet for two months, scientists report today.

The discovery, reported by scientists at Newcastle Un...

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