CHEM 181 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pomegranate Juice, Aromatase, Beta-Carotene

• School: McGill University
• Department: Chemistry
• Course: CHEM 181
• Professor: David Noble Harpp, Ariel Fenster, Joseph A Schwarcz

Document Summary

Tremendous overindulgence in a food in north america. Sitting down for dinner has become a clinical experience. Chemicals: world is made of chemicals, 60 million known chemicals, 100,000 are man-made/synthetic, natural does not always mean safe, synthetic doesn"t always mean danger. You are what you eat and read. Pomegranate = anti-cancer properties: natural aromatase inhibitors. In the lab, the multiplication of cultured breast cancer cells is reduced when bathed in pomegranate juice: advertised as super drink, doctor in disguise, puts you on life support, way to. Marketers will sell apricot extract or pits as a health item". Blow it out of proportion, becomes a solution to cancer" (apricots: laetrile has no effect on cancer. Peer-reviewed literature - very important source, where information is taken from. Lignans: beneficial effects: contains fiber (soluble and insoluble, insoluble: laxative, soluble: speeding substances through the gut and regulating humans, eating lignans can have an effect on breast cancer in pre-menopausal women who are overweight.