New cure could slash cancer deaths by two-thirds?

[edvin76]

The Daily Express reports an extract of red yeast rice – the ingredient which gives Peking duck its colour –
may slash cancer deaths by two-thirds and heart disease by a third.
Heart disease is Britain’s biggest killer.
The extract apparently out-performed cholesterol-lowering drugs (known as statins),
and reduced the chance of a repeat heart attack by 45 per cent.

http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/47670

Do you guys think this is true?
If yes, then would be a miracle!

[Mac_Bug]

[Sangius]

i wouldent say a miracle.

they called penicillin a miracle and it wassent becouse now we have multirecistant bacteria
but if it realy works as well as they say i would call it a major brakethrough

[edvin76]

@Mac:
I know... sounded good tho. And is such a large article with so much authentic looking details, however would they post such a big lie?

[Mac_Bug]

I've got a bridge to sell to you

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[Mind Strike]

Maybe this will lead to an explosion in Light sensitive Zombies that take over the night time world with only Will Smith and People on ships being able to tell the tale......all because of peking duck......if thats what u want, then thats what will happen

[Energizer Bunny]

@MacBug: Rofl - that's absolutely priceless mate

[boolybooly]

by a happy coincidence I luff Chyneez fude

<3

but I dont luff MSG which gives me TMJ pain

this comment was informative I thought and put it into perspective neatly

The findings on heart disease are not very surprising. Red yeast rice contains lovastatin - a cholesterol lowering drug. Unfortunately the full scientific paper is only available to print subscribers of the American Journal of Cardiology at present but from the information provided in the abstract the researchers have not proved that the extract of red yeast rice used was "more effective than statins" because they didn't compare it with a statin, just with a placebo. It may be more effective, it may be safer and it may be cheaper but we don't know yet.

What we can say is that going out and eating a lot of Chinese take-aways and Peking Duck in the hope of protecting ourselves against heart disease is going to be counterproductive - all that fat and salt in the take-aways will do more harm!

Re the cancer claim - just too early to say.