Finally a delicious way to fight a deadly disease: “Cancer cells forget how to die – they just grow and grow and grow,” says Daniel Nixon, MD, president of the American Health Foundation in Valhalla, NY.
Solution: Raspberries, which have a chemical called ellagic acid that kills cancer cells by reinstituting their ability to die.
So far, ellagic acid has worked in test tube and animal studies; Dr. Nixon is studying whether eating raspberries can reduce the number of colon polyps in people at risk of colon cancer.
Strawberries, raspberries, jambools have plenty of ellagic acid. But the top source is Pomegranates.