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Article Source: the Mail onlineEating watercress every day could help to prevent breast cancer, researchers have found.
The 'super food' can help to 'turn off' a signal in the body and thereby help starve the tumour of essential blood and oxygen, according to experts at the University of Southampton.
The found that volunteers who ate 80 grams of watercress a day, equivalent to a cereal bowl sized helping, had elevated levels of cancer-fighting molecules in their blood within hours of eating the salad leaves.
#1 - Mon Sep 20, 2010 5:51 AM EDTThis is good news:)
I haven't eaten watercress in years, I may have to buy some and start eating it.
#2 - Mon Sep 20, 2010 5:52 AM EDTWatercress spoils rapidly soon after purchase even with refrigeration .
But I'm going to reveal my supersecret method for extending its useful lifespan .
Before you put it into the fridge , wrap it in paper towels . Then put that
package inside the plastic bag . Now it will keep for maybe a full week .
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