Clinical trials are about to start on a medical form of the well know food additive Turmeric. A key ingredient of most Indian curry's, and also a health herb. Recent studies by the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego have confirmed that the spice can significantly slow or reverse the advance of Alzheimers disease.
The effective component (J147) has been extracted, and may well also help in the treatment of other diseases such as Parkinsons Disease, and Strokes. No doubt J147 will cost a fortune in a prescription form .... much like paracetamol costing the NHS £3.23 per item, despite paracetamol being sold for as little as 19p for a pack of 16 in supermarkets (a scandal if you ask me, and costs us £70 million a year).
Now frankly this is not really new information, as the BBC food page link has confirmed, and I would rather have a regular curry than a pill, but there you are. There are in fact a number of Super Foods, which allegedly provide different benefits .....
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| Curry's Normally Contain Turmeric |
The effective component (J147) has been extracted, and may well also help in the treatment of other diseases such as Parkinsons Disease, and Strokes. No doubt J147 will cost a fortune in a prescription form .... much like paracetamol costing the NHS £3.23 per item, despite paracetamol being sold for as little as 19p for a pack of 16 in supermarkets (a scandal if you ask me, and costs us £70 million a year).
Now frankly this is not really new information, as the BBC food page link has confirmed, and I would rather have a regular curry than a pill, but there you are. There are in fact a number of Super Foods, which allegedly provide different benefits .....
