Eating walnuts may change gut bacteria in a way that suppresses colon cancer, researchers led by UConn Health report in the journal Cancer Prevention Research.
A team of researchers from UConn Health and The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine found that mice that ate 7-10.5 per-cent of their total calories as walnuts developed fewer colon cancers. The effect was most pronounced in male mice, which had 23 times fewer tumors when fed walnuts as part of a diet similar to the typical American's. That's equiva-lent to a human eating about an ounce of walnuts a day.
The study titled "Effects of walnut consumption on colon carcinogenesis and microbial communi-ty structure" was pub-lished in the journal Cincer Prevention Research. "Our results show for the first time that walnut con-sumption may reduce colon tumor develop-ment," said Principal Investigator Dr. Daniel W.Rosenberg of UConn Health. "There is accumulating evidence that eating walnuts may offer a variety of benefits related to health issues like cancer.
This study shows that walnuts may also act as a probiotic to make the colon healthy, which in turn offers protec-tion against colon tumors."
Walnuts are packed with compounds known to be important nutritionally. They have the most polyun-saturated fatty acids of all the commonly eaten tree nuts, as well as the highest ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 fatty acids, and high levels of a form of Vitamin E with anti-cancer properties.
Source: The Guardian News
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