Linda and nephew Cash
2010
Onions are my favorite fruit. I chop them up and use them with everything –
hamburger, soup, chili, scrambled eggs, breakfast cereal. I have often said that a household without
onions is a house without sustenance.
Only bacon, eggs and Reyka vodka rival onions in importance.
Obviously I can’t credit onions for the fact that I have
avoided ovarian cancer. However, some
Japanese scientists have shown that onions contain a substance – they call it
onionin A (ONA) – that inhibits the growth of OVCA cells in mice. Apparently ONA does a number on “myeloid-derived
suppressor cells”, which, in a manner unexplained, act to favor the growth of
tumor cells. How it works and where we
go from here is left unaddressed, but it (this research) seems promising so I
thought I’d clue you in.
Oh, by the way – “myeloid” refers to having been derived
from bone marrow. Like blood.
http://www.figo.org/news/compound-onions-could-protect-against-ovarian-cancer-0015395
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