Study: Cocoa Could Prevent Colon Cancer
A new study has shown eating cocoa, the raw material in chocolate, can help prevent intestinal complaints linked to oxidative stress, including colon cancer, according to a Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology news release.
Scientists from the Institute of Food Science and Technology and Nutrition fed rats a cocoa-rich (12 percent) diet for eight weeks and induced carcinogenesis. Researchers found the rats that had been fed a cocoa-rich diet had a significantly reduced number of aberrant crypts, which are abnormal tube-like glands, in the colon.
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