NZ researchers make use of ice cream to battle cancer effects
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
New Zealand scientists are developing an ice cream that is so good for you; it could come with a doctor's prescription.
Researchers at the University of Auckland are effectively working with dairy huge Fonterra to create a "medicinal dessert" which has revealed hopeful signs in fighting the side-effects of chemotherapy in cancer victims. The ReCharge ice cream is using lively ingredients from dairy products to relieve diarrhea, anemia and be deficient in of appetite in people undergoing chemotherapy.
Participants in a trial have been consummating a 100 gram pot of the strawberry-flavored ice cream each and every day."The two bio-active milk components urbanized for ReCharge contain the only one of its kind potential to aid the body in coping with the side effects of chemotherapy," Fonterra's principal technology office Jeremy Hill said in a declaration.
Dairy is New Zealand's largest sell abroad industry, with Fonterra controlling about a third of the world's dairy exports. (Reporting by Adrian Bathgate, editing by Miral Fahmy)
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