{"id":16,"date":"2007-09-20T10:00:24","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T10:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=16"},"modified":"2007-09-20T10:00:24","modified_gmt":"2007-09-20T10:00:24","slug":"bush-tucker-fights-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/bush-tucker-fights-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush tucker fights cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from Food Science Australia, a government-funded research body, have now demonstrated that natural foods sourced by Australian aboriginies aid in the fight against cancer.\u00a0 The fruits, in particular, found in bushland are high in anti-oxidants which are proven to help teh body resist cancer and other diseases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story2\">They include red and yellow finger limes, Tasmanian pepper, brush cherry and the Molucca raspberry. Kakadu plums and Burdekin plums contained nearly five times the level of antioxidants as blueberries.\u00a0 Also, tests showed that the Kakadu plum, which is found in the Northern Territory and Western Australia, has the second-highest vitamin C level of any fruit in the world; up to three per cent of its dry weight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from Food Science Australia, a government-funded research body, have now demonstrated that natural foods sourced by Australian aboriginies aid in the fight against cancer.\u00a0 The fruits, in particular, found in bushland are high in anti-oxidants which are proven to help teh body resist cancer and other diseases. They include red and yellow finger limes, &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/bush-tucker-fights-cancer\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bush tucker fights cancer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-g","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}