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Norwich, United Kingdom, October 13: A new British research has found that Jam and jelly, flavorful preserves which are sure to delight everyone, can do more than just make breakfast delicious.

According to an ongoing study by the Institute of Food Research in Norwich, both jam and jelly contain a basic ingredient called pectin that could help prevent the spread of cancerdefine.

Pectin, a natural fibre found in fruits and vegetables, is widely used in food processing. The modified pectin releases a molecular fragment that blocks all stages of cancer progression, the researchers explain.

Over the past two decades, cell phones have gone from being a luxury to a necessity. Today, more and more people are relying on cell phones and a sizeable group of consumers for the gadgets are the youngsters. But, the mobile phones use can adversely affect the mental health of youngsters, reveals a new study.

The study by the Swedish researchers suggests that children and teenagers are five times more likely to suffer a type of brain cancerdefine later in life if they use cell phones. In their research, the experts found that teenagers who started using mobiles at young age were five times more likely to suffer from glioma, a type of primary central nervous system (CNS) tumor that arises from glial cells.

And, those who started using cell phones in their 20s were twice as likely to get the tumor.

According to Lead researcher Lennart Hardell of University Hospital Orebro, kids’ thinner skulls and developing nervous systems make them particularly vulnerable to tumors, and as their heads are smaller and their skulls are thinner, the electromagnetic radiationdefine from cell phones penetrates deeper into their brains.

Exposure to burning incense over long periods of time may increase the risk of respiratory-tract cancers, a new study by researchers from Statens Serum Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark suggested Monday.

The study suggested that regularly inhaling the smoke could put people at risk of cancers of the respiratory tract. Based on data from a large Chinese cohort study, the findings are to be published in the October issue of Cancerdefine.

In order to determine a link between heavy incense use and various respiratory cancers, the researchers conducted interviews with more than 61,000 ethnic Chinese living in Singapore who were between the ages of 45 and 74 and were cancer-free at the beginning of the study.

After a 12-year follow up, Jeppe T. Friborg, M.D., Ph.D., of Statens Serum Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark, and formerly of the University of Minnesota, and colleagues noticed that incense users had an 80% increased risk of squamous-cell respiratory-tract cancers compared with nonusers.