UAB researchers link calorie intake to cell lifespan, cancer development

Thursday, December 17, 2009 - 18:07 in Health & Medicine

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have discovered that restricting consumption of glucose, the most common dietary sugar, can extend the life of healthy human-lung cells and speed the death of precancerous human-lung cells, reducing cancer's spread and growth rate. ...

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