A research team from the University of Ohio, publishing the results of a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has found that a compound abundant in the Mediterranean diet takes away cancer cells' 'superpower' to escape death. Scientists discovered that by altering a very specific step in gene regulation, this compound essentially re-educates cancer cells to revert back to normal cells that die as scheduled. The compound, known as apigenin is found in abundance in many plant-based foods frequently found in the Mediterranean diet that include chamomile tea, celery and parsley, among a host of other leafy green vegetables.
Apigenin from fresh vegetables encourages normal cancer cell death cycle

Lead study author, Dr. Andrea Doseff noted "We know we need to eat healthfully, but in most cases we don't know the actual mechanistic reasons for why we need to do that... we see here that the beneficial effect on health is attributed to this dietary nutrient affecting many proteins...
apigenin re-establishes the normal profile in cancer cells... we think this can have great value clinically as a potential cancer-prevention strategy." An important finding is that apigenin influences the activity of messenger RNA, a critical component that provides the blueprint for protein construction.
Dr. Doseff concluded "So by applying this nutrient, we can activate the [cancer cell] killing machinery... this suggests that when we eat healthfully, we are actually promoting more normal splice forms inside the cells in our bodies." Nutrition experts recommend consuming five to nine daily servings of fresh vegetables to lower the risk of many chronic diseases. Increasing intake of apigenin directly influences the life cycle of cancer cells to dramatically lower the risk of many forms of cancer.
Sources for this article include:
http://cancer.osu.edu
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-05/tes-fos052013.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130520154303.htm
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