{"id":90728,"date":"2017-06-11T19:15:30","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T13:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=90728"},"modified":"2017-06-11T19:15:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-11T13:45:30","slug":"onions-can-kill-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/onions-can-kill-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Onions can kill cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Researchers suggest that dark red onions, often known as the richest source of dietary flavonoids, may help in combating breast and colon cancer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We found that onions are excellent at killing cancer cells,&#8221; said Abdulmonem Murayyan, doctoral student at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-90729 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/230920.jpg\" alt=\"Onions can kill cancer \" width=\"640\" height=\"499\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Onions activate pathways that encourage cancer cells to undergo cell death. They promote an unfavourable environment for cancer cells and disrupt communication bet ..ween cancer cells, which inhibits growth,&#8221; Murayyan added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The findings, published recently in the journal Food Research International, revealed that red onions contain high levels of quercetin &#8212; a plant polyphenol from the flavonoid group, found in many fruits, vegetables, leaves, and grains &#8212; and include benefits such as lowering inflammation and fighting allergies, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers suggest that dark red onions, often known as the richest source of dietary flavonoids, may help in combating breast and colon cancer. &#8220;We found that onions are excellent at killing cancer cells,&#8221; said Abdulmonem Murayyan, doctoral student at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. &#8220;Onions activate pathways that encourage cancer cells to undergo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90730,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29598,2],"tags":[2868,27080,11569,32088,46060,46057,33343,43055,46059,46058,1149],"class_list":["post-90728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","category-top-stories","tag-canada","tag-cancer","tag-food","tag-grains","tag-leaves","tag-murayyan","tag-onion","tag-ontario","tag-research-international","tag-university-of-guelph","tag-vegetables"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/onionsbenefits.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}