RECENT studies by United States and Spanish researchers have identified compounds in olive oil and fish oil that can stop cell damage thereby providing cures for leukaemia and pancreatitis. Previous studies have shown that the oils are beneficial in preventing and treating breast and prostate cancers.
Chronic pancreatitis is a condition afflicting nearly 0.04 per cent to five per cent of the population worldwide. The disease presents as recurrent episodes of abdominal pain, fatty stools and weight loss, or may be asymptomatic. Patients may develop complications over a variable period of time.
Leukaemia is the cancer of the white blood cells.
Scientists at the University of Granada, Spain have shown that oleic acid and hydroxytyrosol – present in a particularly high concentration in virgin olive oil – and n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids – found in fish – relieve the symptoms of pancreatitis.
The researchers in a study published in the journal Proceedings of the Nutrition Society evaluated the role of Mediterranean diet ingredients in the prevention and mitigation of cell damage.
Oleic acid and hydroxytyrosol –present in a particularly high concentration in virgin olive oil– and n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids –found in fish– affect the cellular mechanisms involved in the development of acute pancreatitis, a disease of oxidative-inflammatory etiology. Therefore, oleic acid and hydroxytyrosol can be considered potential functional ingredients, as they may prevent or mitigate this disease.
The study conducted by a research group at the University of Granada Physiology Department, examined the role of the Mediterranean diet ingredients in the prevention and mitigation of cell damage.
These scientists developed an in vitro experimental model that allows scientist to evaluate how changes in the membrane fatty acid composition in vivo –caused by a change in the type of fat ingested– affect the ability of cells to respond to induced oxidative-inflammatory damage with cerulein (acute pancreatitis).
This is the first study to examine how fatty acids and antioxidants affect the cellular mechanisms that respond to local inflammation in the pancreas. The University of Granada scientists have evaluated the role of antioxidants from a preventive approach, that is, by using an experimental model in mice in which cell damage is induced after pretreatment with these nutritional components.
Also, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, United States of America, in a study published in the current issue of Blood found that a compound produced from fish oil that appears to target leukemia stem cells could lead to a cure for the disease...........http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=72070:olive-fish-oils-raise-hope-for-leukaemia-pancreatitis-treatment-&catid=44:natural-health&Itemid=599
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