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Wild South America – Amazon Jungle – Clay Lick

Mar 20, 2012   //   by Team FPS   //   animals, fungus, General, leaves, nature, seeds, toxicity  //  Comments Off on Wild South America – Amazon Jungle – Clay Lick
A scene from the “Wild South America” episode, Amazon Jungle. This shows how leaves and seeds in the rain forest have become very poisonous to protect themselves from being eaten. The animals, however, have gone one better and found a way to protect themselves from the toxins, they eat clay. This is truly a remarkable [...]

Dietary Fiber and Cancer

Nutrition and cancer. 1998. v. 31 (1) Dietary lignin, an insoluble fiber, enhanced uterine cancer but did not influence mammary cancer induced by N-methyl-N-nitrosourea in rats. Previous investigations suggested potential breast cancer-preventive properties of dietary fiber from cabbage. The purpose of the present investigation was to determine whether lignin, a component of cabbage fiber, would [...]

Dietary Fiber and Cancer

Nutrition and cancer. 1998. v. 31 (1) Dietary lignin, an insoluble fiber, enhanced uterine cancer but did not influence mammary cancer induced by N-methyl-N-nitrosourea in rats. Previous investigations suggested potential breast cancer-preventive properties of dietary fiber from cabbage. The purpose of the present investigation was to determine whether lignin, a component of cabbage fiber, would [...]
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