Greens are good for you

"Eating your greens really is good for you – munching on broccoli twice a week can halve men's chances of developing the most dangerous form of prostate cancer. Men who ate the vegetable had a 45 per cent lower risk of developing a malignant tumour in the prostate, a...

Thousands of Nuclear Arms Workers See Cancer Claims Denied or Delayed

"Walter McKenzie's assignment toward the end of the Cold War was to mop up after mishaps at a nuclear weapons factory. With a crew of other laborers from rural Georgia, he swabbed away leaks and spills inside the secret buildings, until one day his body became so contaminated...

Fake Sugar, Real Cancer

Even in realistic "human-sized" doses (not a rat eating six tons of the stuff), aspartame has been proven carcinogenic. Aspartame is found in products ranging from soda pop to medicine tablets; this discovery raises important questions of trust in a profit-driven food...

A cure for tumor: 4 spoonfuls of sand per day

"A sixty-year-old man in east China's Jiangxi Province claims that he has gradually recovered from liposarcoma - malignant tumors found in the tissue of fat cells - and stomach ulcers after eating sand for 18 years. Sheng Shoudong, a cleaner at a food market in Shaxi town,...