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What is sporadic colorectal cancer? It is the third most common type of cancer. It kills more than a half a million people worldwide each year, and about 7% of the American population develop this type of cancer. Scientists have conducted an experiment where there were three groups. One of the groups was given 20 milligrams of resveratrol in the form of a pill, they were given this dose daily. Another group was given 120 grams of a grape powder combined with water in the form of a drink which they had drink daily. The last group was given 80 grams of grape powder to drink daily. They all did not succeed in ending colon cancer but the group that was given 80 grams of grape powder to drink daily showed a dramatic reduction. This is an extreme discovery because according to Dr. Holcombe: it suggests that an element in grapes will have the power to block a key intracellular signaling pathway that is involved with the forming of colon cancer, before a tumor develops. Wine- a drink made of grapes and alcohol may also abolish the development of colon cancer. In a study 499 colorectal cancer patients they found that a modest amount of wine before the development of this cancer ameliorated the outcome of survival among the patients whose ancestry had a history of colorectal cancer.
This is a great discovery because there are many people in the world with colon cancer and now that we know that grapes help to prevent this, many lives would and will be saved. My mom said that drinking wine was actually healthy, in fact the Romans use to drink plenty of wine and they were extremely healthy. At first I didn't believe her I thought it was just an excuse for her to drink red wine. Now that I know for sure that a moderate consumption of wine is actually I urged her to keep drinking but not to the point where she gets drunk.
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