Also to be considered is the ecological damage inflicted by thousands of pickers bounding through the bush. B.C.'s Ministry of Forestry has made some noises about regulating the industry, but nothing has been done yet. Here are a few reports of such foods which appeared in the press last year. Anthicinems work as anti-adhesives, preventing bacteria from sticking to the lining of the urinary tract and gut. This may explain the low incidence of prostate cancer in men from Italy and Greece, since both countries have diets containing large amounts of tomatoes.
Researchers believe that the effect is probably caused by antioxidant carotenoids such as lycopene.
In a breast cancer study from Greece, researchers compared cancer rates in women who ate large amounts of vegetables, fruits and olive oil with those in the study who ate the least amount of these foods. There is something in grapefruit juice which promotes the uptake of certain drugs into the blood. For example, patients taking calcium channel blockers for high blood pressure with grapefruit juice may have up to 3 times the blood level of the drug compared with levels that exist when no juice is consumed with the pill. Researchers suspect that deaths attributed to Seldane might have resulted from overdoses caused by drinking grapefruit juice with the pill. On the bright side, if the active ingredient in the juice can be isolated, it could be used in pills containing lower amounts of a drug in order to deliver the same blood drug level as occurs with currently used pills.