| CurcumiNews |
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 01, 2007 Scientific American Magazine - Curcumin, Cure for Alzheimers and Cancer? A new article in Scientific American magazine offers a provocative heading: "An ingredient in curry shows promise for treating Alzheimer's, cancer and other diseases" and notes that: "curcumin and related compounds called curcuminoids--as having antioxidant, anti- inflammatory, antiviral, antibacterial and antifungal properties, with potential activity against cancer, diabetes, arthritis, Alzheimer's disease and other chronic maladies. And in 2005 nearly 300 scientific and technical papers referenced curcumin in the National Library of Medicine's PubMed database, compared with about 100 just five years earlier. |
