1/25/2012

Beans Cancer Drugs


Again, follow the advice to eat vegetables. One of the vegetables, beans, was efficacious fight against cancer. In this case of cancer in the digestive tract, such as colon cancer.

Researchers at Hammersmith Hospital and Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London suspect, because the properties contained within the bean compounds called lectins, which are associated with food on the behavior of cancer cells are located in the colon.

Lectins are protein compounds commonly found in many vegetables. This compound attaches itself to the carbohydrate molecules smoked cells in the intestine during digestion.

In addition there are the vegetables, this compound is also found in fungi. As published in the medical journal Gut, lectins stop and even reverse the cancer process. Lectins in this case increases the difference between cancer cells and healthy cells, this facilitates the therapeutic treatment, such as X-rays In this case X-rays to be better targeted. Lectins are also thought to prevent the multiplication of cancer cells.

"It is useful to note that vegetables and fruits can fight various types of cancer," said research team leader, Prof. John Calam.

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