In what ways are followers of Jesus demonstrating God's loving character through caring for the sick, preventing disease, and even attempting to eradicate some diseases?
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by Beth Snodderly, Editor
Ralph Winter founded the Roberta Winter Institute to “declare war on [the] sources of disease, in addition to being kind helpfully to sick people.”[1] Although Winter wrote in 2002 that “Virtually no one is trying to figure out how to eradicate pathogens” (Winter 2008, 174), that is no longer true. WCIU Board member, Dr. Richard Gunasekera, is carrying on Winter’s vision through his research with nano molecules, first at Rice University and now at Biola University.
Resources compiled by Timothy Skinner, MLS.
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Phytochemicals play a decisive role in breast and prostate carcinogenesis by influencing their biological processes such as cell-cycle control, programmed cell death (apoptosis), inflammation, and DNA repair. Their pathogenesis includes the effects of environmental factors such as diet that may trigger the initiating of cancer in those who are predisposed genetically and epigenetically. Dietary phytochemicals can act as blocking agents by obstructing the initiation phase of carcinogenesis or they can act as suppressing agents by hindering the promotion and progression phases of carcinogenesis. My team has designed a food pyramid based on phytochemical bioactive molecules (PBAM) that will provide consumers, survivors, and cancer patients with information on bioactive foods that contain PBAM for cancer prevention.
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