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A team from the United States, Finland and Hong Kong has found that curcumin--found in the Indian spice turmeric--may help prevent alcohol-related liver disease (ALD). The spice, which gives curry its yellow color, apparently blocks activation of a genetic factor leading to liver inflammation and necrosis.
Curcumin was earlier shown to deactivate a natural compound-called nuclear factor kappa-B (NF-KB)--linked with the production of cancerous cells and with blood vessel growth in tumors.
This same compound is involved in a number of tissues that are sensitive to alcohol, which suggests that any spice that could deactivate NF-KB may also prevent alcohol ...