Project
Increasing Knowledge on the Nutritional and Health Benefits of Beans and Cowpeas as Related to Reducing the Incidences of Cancers and Chronic Diseases
Details
Project Code:
LAC3-A1
Start Date:
2002
End Date:
2007
CRSP Phase:
Not Available
Budget:
Not Available
Countries:
Jamaica
Participants
Lead University:
Michigan State University
Other Partners:
University of West Indies (Jamaica)
Principal Investigator(s):
Maria Jackson and Sharon Hooper (Jamaica); Kathleen Barrett (US)
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
None
Overview
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Objectives
1. Evaluate the efficacy of navy beans to inhibit colon cancer in an obese-diabetic model of colon cancer. 2. Evaluating anti-cancer constituents for beans in Jamaica. 3. Continue the prostate cancer case-control study. 4. Determine if the anti-colon cancer properties associated with eating black beans is contained in an alcohol extract of the beans and if so, do oligosaccharides contribute to the anti-cancer activity.
Outcomes
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