Researcher Details Role Of Apples In Inhibiting Breast Cancer

Whore or not whore? You decide.

"Six studies published in the past year by a prominent Cornell researcher add to growing evidence that an apple a day -- as well as daily helpings of other fruits and vegetables -- can help keep the breast-cancer doctor away...

In his latest study, for example, he found that a type of adenocarcinoma -- a highly malignant tumor and the main cause of death of breast-cancer patients, as well as of animals with mammary cancer -- was evident in 81 percent of tumors in the control animals. However, it developed in only 57 percent, 50 percent and 23 percent of the rats fed low, middle and high doses of apple extracts (the equivalent of one, three and six apples a day in humans), respectively, during the 24-week study."

One researcher, one type of rat cancer and one interesting source of funding:

"The studies were supported, in part, by...the U.S. Apple Association."

Caveat emptor.