Fruits And Vegetables May Protect Smokers From Lung Cancer
Research by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Jonsson Cancer Center has shown that eating three servings of fruits and vegetables per day and drinking green or black tea may protect smokers from lung cancer.
The researchers attribute this to the flavonoids found in fruits and vegetables. Flavonoids are water-soluble plant pigments that have [...]
Smoking Affects Gene Expression
New research by the National Cancer Institute has shown that smoking affects the way genes are expressed, leading to alterations in cell division.
The researchers measured gene expression in 58 fresh-frozen tumor and 49 fresh-frozen non-tumor samples from 74 participants in the Environmental And Genetics in Lung cancer Etiology (EAGLE) study, which was a large lung [...]
One More Reason Not To Smoke
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have found that smokers are four times as likely to be tired when they wake up and they also spend less time in deep sleep than nonsmokers. The researchers state that the effects may be time-dependent. The nicotine creates difficulty falling asleep, and later [...]
