Plant ingredients may be used as dietary intervention to induce programmed death of cancer cells

The role of diet in preventing or contributing in healing of cancer is now well established. However the molecular mechanisms by which food components exert their health effects are largely […]

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Dr. Passwater: "FDA’s confusion about selenium health claims gets in the way of letting the public know of selenium anti-cancer properties"

Selenium and cancer expert, Dr. Richard A. Passwater is author of four books on selenium and co-patentee on selenium nutrients and other selenium compounds. He gathered more than 50 years […]

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Nutritional genomics may be selenium’s entry ticket for the next nutrient wave

CURRENT STATUS OF NUTRITIONAL STUDIES ON SELENIUM The role of selenium in human nutrition has recently raised interest in the nutrition field. As intakes in Europe have decreased to sub-optimal […]

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Role of the nutrient signaling integrator TOR in growth, cancer and ageing

Coupling the availability of nutrients with cellular growth is essential for all organisms. Indeed, growth is intimately linked to both the energy status of the cell and the presence of […]

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Bioactive food components in cancer prevention: targeting the root cause

Cancer cells’ most important biological characteristic is to divide and proliferate in an uncontrolled fashion, thus contributing to the invasive progression of tumors. Interestingly, all cells of the same tumor […]

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Micronutrients from and for red wine

In November, the grape harvest rests peacefully in the fermentation vats, turning into a red wine, which is hoped to be a pleasure for the palate … and a little […]

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  A review on how nutritional genomics can help validate high health food such as broccoli for cancer prevention: Ferguson, L. R. and Schlothauer, R. C. (2012) The potential role […]

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