Studies have already found that, cancer rate among vegetarian people is low. Now recent studies have shown that almost all types of barriers have potential to fight against cancer. Researchers are now implicating berry use with various health benefits.

Researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center investigated the effect of black raspberries on genes mutated by carcinogen in an animal specimen of esophageal cancer.

The Chemical carcinogen affects the function of 2,200 genes in esophagus of animals, within a week, but with the use of the black raspberry powder, 460 of those affected genes were repaired.

One small study, conducted on the human, was involving patient with a genetic disease known as adenomatous polyposis that elevates the risk of colon cancer. The reduction in rectal polyps was 59 percent less in the patients treated with extract of black raspberry than the patients treated with placebo. Another study suggests that black raspberry powder makes patient asymptomatic from precancerous conditions.

Berries contain a vast verity of vital compounds such as phytochemicals that work as antioxidant, anticancer, anti-neurodegenerative and anti-inflammatory. Moreover raspberries contain vitamin A, C, E, calcium, selenium and folic acid in significant amount.

There are a lot of such diets and creams available these days as claim to defeat ageing with their antioxidant constituents.

But according to a new study, antioxidant may do nothing good against ageing.

In their experiments on Nematode worms, the scientists gave higher antioxidant powers to avoid tissue damaging to them, but they found that despite doing that they couldn’t live longer.

Researchers from University College London say, there is not any clear evidence that show antioxidant can slow ageing.

Antioxidants have been hyped a lot in the health and beauty industries and people have been trusting in them because of this hype, but antioxidants age-fighting properties have been based on a theory that was presented in 1956.