Study says Cabernet and Chocolate can kill cancer.
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Joining foods that are ingredients to starve cancer, by choking off the blood supply to tumors, are red wine and dark chocolate. The Angiogenesis Foundation from Massachusetts announced at the TED conference that they had been rating foods based on cancer fighting qualities and dark chocolate and red grapes have just made the cut.

There are several cancer treatments involving drugs to deprive cancer tumors of blood supplies (a tactic usually called anti-angiogenesis). The foundation compared dietary treatment and approved cancer drug treatments and found that certain combinations of foods (like dark chocolate and cabernet) eaten together may be more effective in fighting cancer.

This could be an important finding, especially around the world since not everyone can afford cancer drugs. They claimed this could be the start of a new medical revolution, impacting public health, consumer education, food service and even insurance agencies.

Other studies have linked similar antioxidant properties in red wine and chocolate. Cold processed or raw dark cacao has one of the highest levels of antioxidants and flavanoids found in any food.

In other great news, this study also found that mice genetically bred to be chubby, actually slimmed down to average mouse size using a diet filled with anti-angiogenesis foods. It turns out that the anti-angiogenesis properties of foods melt away fat, which relies heavily on blood flow to sustain itself. It did get them to a set point of an average mouse but seemed to not get them to become "supermodel mice."