Forget gene therapy, try some greens therapy

Scientists link robustly coloured food to health

Tom Spears , Canwest News Service

By giving animals healthy food, a neuroscientist from Boston found, you can teach an old rat new tricks.

And Jim Joseph of Tufts University learned much more: Fresh fruits and vegetables gave animals healthier hearts and blood vessels, healthier muscles, less cancer and less diabetes compared to meats, bread, pasta, cheese and other foods heavy in protein and energy.

Now Joseph and Dan Nadeau, an endocrinologist in Maine who also teaches at Tufts, near Boston, have packaged their knowledge of food into a book that's ...