India’s increasingly shrill anti-beef lobby is likely to get support from unexpected quarters this week with the World Health Organisation (WHO) putting processed red meat in the same category of cancer-causing substances as arsenic, plutonium and tobacco. While processed staples such as bacon, sausages and salami will find place among things “carcinogenic to humans” because of their confirmed link with bowel cancer, unprocessed red meat — all fresh cuts of […]

Bollywood singer-composer Aadesh Shrivastava, who was battling a relapsed cancer, passed away post midnight in Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani hospital here. He was 51. Shrivastava had been undergoing cancer treatment at the hospital in Andheri for over 40 days. “Mr Aadesh Shrivastava (51) expired at 12.30 am on September 5, 2015 in Kokilaben Hospital due to cancer,” Dr Ram Narain of the hospital told PTI. Shrivastava is survived by his wife, […]

Turmeric has been used traditionally for centuries by Ayurveda and Chinese medicine. Curcumin is the active anti-inflammatory ingredient of turmeric and is considered to be the most potent, medicinally powerful, cancer-killing component of turmeric. Scientists are also beginning to realize the importance of turmeric/curcumin in treating modern disease. Turmeric is considered to fight Cancer in three ways: • It neutralizes those substances and conditions which can cause cancer. It directly […]

New York: People who consume one or more cans of cold drinks per day are exposing themselves to a potential carcinogen, warns a new study. The ingredient, 4-methylimidazole (4-MEI) – a possible human carcinogen – is formed during the manufacture of some kinds of caramel colour. Caramel colour is a common ingredient in colas and other dark soft drinks. “Soft drink consumers are being exposed to an avoidable and unnecessary […]

The police were banging on the doors and the windows of her home while she cowered in the closet, a 17-year-old girl recounted. She remembered clutching her phone, crying, calling her mother. “I was scared,” she wrote  of the experience. It may sound like a drug raid, or the climax of a movie. But in fact, the police, along with representatives of Connecticut’s Department of Children and Families, had come […]

Washington: A new study has examined that Neu5Gc, a non-human sugar found in red meat, promotes inflammation and cancer progression in rodents. The study conducted at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine found that feeding Neu5Gc to mice engineered to be deficient in the sugar (like humans) significantly promoted spontaneous cancers. The study did not involve exposure to carcinogens or artificially inducing cancers, further implicating Neu5Gc as […]

This woman, whose name was not published, lives in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She shared this recipe in order to help patients around the world who suffer from this nasty disease The recipe is easily prepared and you need only two ingredients – ginger and honey. The Bosnian woman claims this recipe brought her back to life. She suffered from cancer of the endocrine glands and because of this she was […]

Google is working on a cancer-detecting pill in its latest effort to push the boundaries of technology. Still in the experimental stage, the pill is packed with tiny magnetic particles, which can travel through a patient’s bloodstream, search for malignant cells and report their findings to a sensor on a wearable device. As many as 2,000 of these microscopic “nanoparticles” could fit inside a single red blood cell to provide […]

Colgate Total contains triclosan, which has been linked to cancer and growth malformations in animals The toothpaste was approved by the FDA in 1997 – but the toxicology summary reveals the FDA used company-backed evidence to approve it The documents were released earlier this year after a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit last year A chemical that has been linked to cancer cell growth is being used by millions of […]

Food Packaging Forum discovered 175 dangerous chemicals in packaging Toxic substances linked to cancer, sperm production, genital malformations as well as disrupting hormone production in the body Warned chemicals could end up in the food the packaging contains Experts call for tighter regulation of food packaging to ban substances Chemicals found in foil, cans and some containers and wrappers But Food Standards Agency said all food packaging falls within EU […]