Do you love a good curry? It may be good for your colon, and not just your taste buds! Curry includes a spice called turmeric, which gets its yellow pigment from a chemical called curcumin. A recent small clinical trial looked at certain food chemicals — like curcumin — and their ability to fight precancerous growths in the digestive tract. These growths (or polyps) can lead to colon cancer, if left untreated. The people in the trial had an inherited genetic condition that leads to the growth of these polyps in the intestines. Due to this rare inherited condition, precancerous … Continue reading →