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Dear Joicy: Wow! I happen to really like tapioca! Years ago, I had ulcers -- fairly severe. When they would really hurt, I'd make a big pot of tapioca and eat it warm. I don't know why, but for some reason it would soothe and eventually the pain would go away. Now I have another excuse to eat it whenever I want! LOL Love, Kathy
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From: owner-mol-cancer@lists.meds.com
[mailto:owner-mol-cancer@lists.meds.com]On Behalf Of Becker, Joicy
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 1999 8:07 AM
To: 'MOLers'
Subject: [MOL] Tapioca treatment for cancer
Now this is more like it -- I LOVE tapioca! Love, Joicy
Tapioca treatment for cancer
[04/14/99; BBC News]
Tapioca pudding - widely known as frog's eggs by many school
pupils - may after all be good for you.
Scientists say the plant from which it is derived may help cure
cancer.
Tapioca is derived from the cassava plant.
It is one of many plants which manufactures cyanide to deter animals
who might want to eat it.
It does this by producing a chemical called linamarin which releases
hydrogen cyanide when it is broken down by the linamarase enzyme.
Geneticists at Newcastle University have been taking genetic material
from the cassava plant and adding it to a virus.
This is then introduced into cancer cells which have been impregnated
with linamarin from the cassava plant.
The aim is for the cancer cells to produce hydrogen cyanide in
high enough doses so that they commit suicide.
The full article can be found at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_317000/317467.stm
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