Sentences with phrase «less aflatoxin»

Farmers typically hold back some of a harvest to feed to their own families, so if all their crop has less aflatoxin, then their families are now eating healthier, too.

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The threat from aflatoxin is not new or limited to Africa but the toxin disproportionately affects people in poorer countries with less rigorous crop testing.

However, the downstream effects of aflatoxins on the airway passage is less studied and understood.

Under such conditions [wherein low - protein diets suppress the activity of detoxification enzymes], the parent compound AFB1 would accumulate to cause greater acute toxic effects, whereas less product (i.e., aflatoxin - DNA adducts) would accumulate to initiate carcinogenesis.

Animals starting with the most cancer initiation (high - aflatoxin dose) developed substantially less foci when fed the 5 % protein diet.

In this study, he and his research crew discovered that aflatoxin - exposed rats fed wheat gluten exhibited less cancer growth than rats fed the same amount of casein.

Alas, we find that these low - protein diets made the rats eat less food, fail to grow, and unable to efficiently detoxify aflatoxin and a multitude of other toxins.

Campbell never tells us, however, that these Indian researchers actually published this paper as part of a two - paper set, one showing that low - casein diets make aflatoxin much more acutely toxic to rats (1), and the other showing that these same diets make aflatoxin much less carcinogenic (2).